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News Update/Commentary
Mammoth problem with extinction timeline
November 30, 2022 Science Daily
Mammoth DNA found in sediments likely came from long-dead animals
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News Update/Commentary
Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brain
November 30, 2022 Science Daily
These immature connections may explain how the adult brain is able to form new memories and absorb new information
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Neanderthals Cooked Surprisingly Complex Meals
November 30, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Charred food remnants provide insight into 70,000-year-old dietary practices
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Why is half the Universe missing?
November 30, 2022 Big Think
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
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Can Plants See? In the Wake of a Controversial Study, the Answer’s Still Unclear
November 30, 2022 The Scientist
A tiny pilot study found that so-called chameleon vines mimicked plastic leaves, but experts say poor study design and conflicts of interest undermine the report.
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Fossil find suggests ancestral bird beak was mobile
November 30, 2022 Nature
A 67-million-year-old fossil bird found in Europe provides evidence suggesting that scientists should reconsider centuries-old ideas about the nature of the ancestral avian beak.
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When did mammoths go extinct?
November 30, 2022 Nature
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67-million-year-old fossil upends bird evolutionary tree
November 30, 2022 Nature
Beak bone from ancient bird revises order of their modern ancestors.
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Ruminating on Created Kinds and Ark Kinds
November 30, 2022 Answers Research Journal
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Pupating ants make milk -- and scientists only just noticed
November 30, 2022 Nature
A nutritious fluid secreted by pupating ants helps to feed the rest of the colony, and could play a part in the evolution of social structures.
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Scientific Uncertainty Is Cosmic in Scope
November 30, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Different researchers can use the same data to reach opposite conclusions. This contributes to a crisis of confidence in science.
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Your Intelligently Designed Body Is a System of Systems
November 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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New look at ancient jaw fossil rewrites bird evolution
November 30, 2022 Science
Specimen flips evolutionary order of two key groups
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Quantum jumps: How Niels Bohr’s idea changed the world
November 30, 2022 Big Think
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
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Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions
November 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Stanford President’s Past Research Under Investigation
November 30, 2022 The Scientist
The university’s board of trustees will oversee a probe after allegations of errors and manipulated images in four papers Marc Tessier-Lavigne coauthored.
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For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of All Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
November 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Out of this world
November 30, 2022 University of Cambridge
Want to know the meaning of life, the universe and everything? The Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe might just have the answer to the biggest questions.
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Cyborgs v ‘holdout humans’
November 29, 2022 The Conversation
what the world might be like if our species survives for a million years
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General relativity may need tweaking on the grand scale of the Universe
November 29, 2022 Advanced Science News
Conflict between theory and observational evidence suggests a missing ingredient in our understanding of the early Universe.
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Why Frogs Survived the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
November 29, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Not too big, not too small -- they were just the right size to live through Earth’s worst day
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Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?
November 29, 2022 Big Think
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
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Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus
November 29, 2022 Nature
Fieldwork is under way to excavate a rare, well-preserved specimen in central China.
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Elites Celebrate Darwin’s Flawed Analogy
November 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A short manuscript autographed by Darwin is being feted like holy scripture but contains poor reasoning
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Same-Handed Molecules Are an “Overarching Design Principle” in Life
November 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
November 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion
November 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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These Mysterious Fungi Belong to an Entirely New Branch on The Tree of Life
November 29, 2022 Science Alert
Some of Earth's weirdest fungi, including types of lichen, mycorrhizal, and insect symbiotes, never quite seemed to fit in our current tree of life.
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Prigogine’s Self-Organization vs. Specified Biological Complexity
November 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
DNA sequence enhances understanding origins of jaws
November 28, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered and characterized a DNA sequence found in jawed vertebrates, such as sharks and humans, but absent in jawless vertebrates, such as lampreys.
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News Update/Commentary
The evolution of Asia's mammals was dictated by ancient climate change and rising mountains
November 28, 2022 Science Daily
A new study compiles data on more than 3,000 species to show how climate and geologic changes across Asia over the last 66 million years have shaped the evolution of the continent's mammals.
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‘Frightful' never-before-seen tyrannosaur might be the ‘missing link' in T. rex evolution
November 28, 2022 Live Science
Paleontologists have discovered fossils belonging to a newfound species of tyrannosaur, which could fill an important gap in the evolutionary history of T. rex.
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Unique features of octopus create ‘an entirely new way of designing a nervous system’
November 28, 2022 EurekAlert!
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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
November 28, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals -- not the signals themselves.
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A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future
November 28, 2022 New Scientist
Researchers have figured out how the Amami spiny rat lost its Y chromosome, and some believe the same fate may be in store for humans
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Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer
November 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Einstein didn't think time was an illusion
November 28, 2022 iai News
Relativity doesn't imply a block universe
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Brain Experiment Suggests That Consciousness Relies on Quantum Entanglement
November 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Motivates Chimpanzee Experts Anyway?
November 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Is it the welfare of primates or is it “politics by other means”?
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Video
Trees of Life: do they exist?
November 28, 2022 YouTube
“Trees of life” are discussed in three senses: (1) Tall woody plants; (2) The Darwinian tree of life; (3) The Biblical tree of life. As QMUL's Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Richard Buggs compares the evidence for these trees of life.
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Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering
November 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did Our Middle Ear Evolve from Fish Gills?
November 28, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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A Mystery of Human Eyes May Come Down to Trust
November 28, 2022 Real Clear Science
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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young
November 28, 2022 New Scientist
The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt -- a trait that was thought to have evolved later
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There's a Weird Link Between Teeth and the Evolution of Pregnancy
November 27, 2022 Science Alert
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Humanism is a heresy
November 26, 2022 UnHerd
Confusion is bound to follow the death of God
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The Thought That Stops Thought
November 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’
November 26, 2022 The Guardian
To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse
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525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution
November 25, 2022 phys.org
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Science Condemns Co-Inventor of the Transistor
November 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Another racist called out for his racism, yet Charles Darwin, one of the most influential racists in history, gets a pass