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Ancient caterpillar had armoured spikes to protect it from early birds
February 9, 2021 New Scientist
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome May Be Inherited Epigenetically
February 9, 2021 The Scientist
Female mice modeling the hormonal disorder can pass symptoms down for several generations, likely via changes in genome methylation that are similarly observed in women with PCOS.
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers offer possible explanation for elusive dark-matter-free galaxies
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
Extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulation
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News Update/Commentary
Unusual DNA folding increases the rates of mutations
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
New research shows that the elevated mutation rate in these sequences plays a major role in determining regional variation in mutation rates across the genome.
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Evolutionary Paleontologists Ask Wrong Questions
February 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Data that should falsify evolutionary timelines instead is used to launch new storytelling speculations.
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News Update/Commentary
All in the head? Brains adapt to support new species
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists studying forest dwelling butterflies in Central and South America have discovered that changes in the way animals perceive and process information from their environment can support the emergence of new species.
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Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems
February 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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At ScienceNews: “Fake” Fossils More Common Than Real Ones
February 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Darwinism Became a Dogma
February 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Invent a Machine That Generates Mathematics We've Never Seen Before
February 8, 2021 Science Alert
His name was Srinivasa Ramanujan, and he had a unique gift for dreaming up mathematics of a kind few, if any, had ever contemplated.
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Newly Published Analysis Refutes Claims that Sahelanthropus tchadensis Was Human Ancestor
February 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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You Are More than a Primitive Fish
February 8, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Consider this headline: “We’re more like primitive fishes than once believed.” Why aren’t people insulted?
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover how a group of caterpillars became poisonous
February 8, 2021 Science Daily
Genetic research using Smithsonian collections reveals the evolutionary path of six toxic butterfly species
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The Fundamental Building Blocks of Nature -- Particles, Fields, or …
February 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Some Unexpected Stuff for Darwin Day This Year…
February 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Debunk Long-held Theory About Spicy Food
February 8, 2021 Inverse
Why "Darwinian Gastronomy" can't explain the popularity of spice.
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A Reader Asks: Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will?
February 7, 2021 Mind Matters
Materialists sometimes misrepresent the evidence for free will, especially Benjamin Libet’s work
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The Psychological Motivation of Those Who Embrace Postmodernism
February 7, 2021 Wintery Knight
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William Dembski on ID, Church Fathers, and a Problem for Atheists
February 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Max Planck on the Force Behind the Universe
February 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At Snopes: Creationism “Bears All the Hallmarks of a Conspiracy Theory”
February 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Einsteinium Is Mysterious. Scientists Have Unlocked Some of Its Secrets.
February 7, 2021 New York Times
Number 99 on the periodic table does not occur naturally and is difficult to make and store, challenging researchers who want to study it.
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To Understand Fundamental Building Blocks of Nature, One Must Think Beyond Physics
February 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
At Aeon
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Brain Stimulation Tested to Awaken Coma Patients
February 5, 2021 The Scientist
Two out of three people who received noninvasive ultrasound appear to have gained some level of consciousness, according to preliminary trial results.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes for face shape identified
February 5, 2021 Science Daily
Genes that determine the shape of a person's facial profile have been discovered by a research team.
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We're more like primitive fishes than once believed, new research shows
February 5, 2021 Science Daily
Lungs and limbs have been thought of as key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established in our fish ancestor 50 million years earlier
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Interpreting the History of Evolutionary Biology through a Kuhnian Prism
February, 2021 Perspectives on Science, v.29, n.1, p.1-35
Sense or Nonsense?
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The Black Swan: Evidence the Earth Is Flat?
February 5, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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Deplatform Darwin
February 5, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Given the rush to “cancel” people, why do so many ignore one of the most influential racists from the 19th century, Charles Darwin?
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And Now -- The Four-Dimensional Genome
February 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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This Amazing Rube Goldberg Device Happened Just by Accident
February 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
in a Mindless Universe, You Know
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Comparing Darwin and Lincoln (Whose Joint Birthday Is Coming Up)
February 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Some Sperm Win the Race by Poisoning Their Competitors
February 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Creationism Bears All the Hallmarks of a Conspiracy Theory
February 4, 2021 Snopes
In the US today, up to 40% of adults agree with the young Earth creationist claim that all humans are descended from Adam and Eve within the past 10,000 years.
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Researchers identify ‘rescue' mechanism that helps cells survive malfunctioning split
February 4, 2021 Science Daily
Cells replicate their genetic material and divide into two clones to perpetuate life. Some cells pause in the process with a single, undivided nucleus. When the cell resumes division after such a pause, the nucleus can become caught in the fissure
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Divine design denies evolution
February 4, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Is GMO Detection an Application of Dembski's Explanatory Filter?
February 4, 2021 Mind Matters
If so, it would be an instance of the use of the filter in biology
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News Update/Commentary
Can a fin become a limb?
February 4, 2021 Science Daily
Single mutations cause zebrafish fins to transform into complex limb-like structures
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How elephants evolved to become big and cancer-resistant
February 4, 2021 Science Daily
All things being equal, large, long-lived animals should have the highest risk of cancer. Why, then, does cancer rarely afflict elephants, with their long lifespans and gargantuan bodies?
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Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
February 4, 2021 Science Daily
This new paper shows that melanin is more than just something that gives colour to the body. It played an important role in the evolution of warm-blooded animals and helped defined what birds and mammals look like today.
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Academic Article Correcting Misconceptions about Evolution Promotes Misconceptions about ID
February 4, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cell Defenses Have Evolved To Turn the Tables on Viral Attacks
February 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent
by using bait and sounding an alarm
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Larry Moran’s Thoughts on Michael Behe’s A Mousetrap for Darwin
February 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Physicists to look for quantum time dilation inside nuclear reactor
February 3, 2021 New Atlas
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Video
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
February 3, 2021 YouTube
If the universe had been ever so slightly different, human beings wouldn't, couldn't, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems.
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A rebel physicist has an elegant solution to a quantum mystery
February 3, 2021 Wired
The theories we have to describe the nature of the Universe are completely incompatible. Enter an eccentric Polish physicist with a possible solution to the biggest of conundrums
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Darwin’s Been Replaced and We’ve Moved On
February 3, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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At Gizmodo: Neanderthals Were Absorbed, Not Wiped Out
February 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Early Praise for Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis -- And a Preorder Offer
February 3, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Role of the Burbidges in Opposing the Acceptance of Dark Matter
February 3, 2021 Answers in Genesis
A cautionary tale