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Peer-reviewed Paper
A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem
February 9, 2023 Science
The Triassic recovery of life from the devastating end-Permian mass extinction was an amazing period of evolution. Whether biodiversity had to rebuild from near annihilation or from refugia is a matter of conjecture
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News Update/Commentary
Yellow evolution: Unique genes led to new species of monkeyflower
February 9, 2023 Science Daily
Pigment permutations suggest new genes are what make a new species
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God at the Museum
February 9, 2023 First Things
My sister and I recently decided to visit the Museum of the Bible, which sits catty-corner from the Capitol in the heart of Washington, D.C.
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2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools
February 9, 2023 EurekAlert!
Discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones in Kenya offers window into the dawn of stone technology
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Have Our Universe’s First Stars Finally Been Spotted?
February 9, 2023 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought
February 9, 2023 Science Daily
Discovery challenges understanding of how quickly life recovered from the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history
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Why Carl Sagan believed that science is a source of spirituality
February 9, 2023 Big Think
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
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News Update/Commentary
How giants became dwarfs
February 9, 2023 Science Daily
In certain Lake Tanganyika cichlids breeding in empty snail shells, there are two extreme sizes of males: giants and dwarfs. Researchers have analyzed the genomes of these fish and found out how the peculiar sizes of males and females evolved
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Ancient stone tools suggest early humans dined on hippo
February 9, 2023 Nature
Fossils and artefacts unearthed in Kenya suggest our ancestors used stone stools to feed on large animals in the distant past.
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Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
February 9, 2023 Nature
A treasure trove of fossils uncovered in China challenges the idea that marine animals took millions of years to recover from the world’s worst die-off.
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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought
February 9, 2023 New Scientist
A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 million years ago, shortly after a mass extinction wiped out most complex life on Earth
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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools
February 9, 2023 New Scientist
Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they may have been made by our relative Paranthropus
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Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers
February 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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James Tour Dismantles Dave Farina’s Expert Witnesses on the State of Origin-of-Life Research
February 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin’s abiogenesis
February 9, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Lies for public consumption
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Do People and Wild Apes Share a Common Language?
February 9, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Whiskers help nectar-eating ‘acro bats' hover like hummingbirds
February 8, 2023 Science Daily
Extra-long hairs provide enhanced spatial information for orientation and feeding
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Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous
February 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists develop new index based on functional morphology to understand how ancestors of modern birds used their wings
February 8, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have compared the relationship among the strength of flight bones, body mass, and the way modern birds fly to better understand the evolution of flight in birds and extinct animals, such as the Pteranodon.
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Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes
February 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere
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News Update/Commentary
Protein droplets may cause many types of genetic disease
February 8, 2023 Science Daily
Malfunction of cellular condensates is a disease mechanism relevant for congenital malformations, common diseases, and cancer, new research suggests.
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The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy
February 8, 2023 Big Think
Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.
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Signs of ancient climate crisis as the Hittite empire unravelled
February 8, 2023 Nature
An assessment of juniper tree-ring samples from central Turkey, together with other types of dating analysis, demonstrate that a devastating drought in 1198–1196 BC contributed to the end of the Hittite empire.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC
February 8, 2023 Nature
The potential of climate change to substantially alter human history is a pressing concern, but the specific effects of different types of climate change remain unknown. This question can be addressed using palaeoclimatic and archaeological data.
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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue
February 8, 2023 New Scientist
In pursuit of dark matter, researchers are doing everything from burying vats of xenon deep underground to sending a balloon floating above the Antarctic. When will their creativity pay off?
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Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
February 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Design Patterns in the Human Body
February 7, 2023 YouTube
In the book, Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system of thousands of ingenious engineering solutions that impact your heart, your lungs, your feet, your eyes and ears, ...
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God, Natural Law and the Crisis of Morality in the West
February 7, 2023 YouTube
Southern Seminary
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News Update/Commentary
Brain ‘zips and unzips' information to perform skilled tasks
February 7, 2023 Science Daily
The human brain prepares skilled movements such as playing the piano, competing in athletics, or dancing by ‘zipping and unzipping' information about the timing and order of movements ahead of the action being performed, a new study reveals.
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Nitrogen Fixation: No Evolution Here
February 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s “one of the most energetically challenging biochemical reactions in nature,” and it just appeared and never changed.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Independent Evidence for the Preservation of Endogenous Bone Biochemistry in a Specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex
February 7, 2023 Biology, v.12, n.2
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Proof that Neanderthals ate crabs is another ‘nail in the coffin’ for primitive cave dweller stereotypes
February 7, 2023 Frontiers Science News
Scientists studying archaeological remains at Gruta da Figueira Brava, Portugal, discovered that Neanderthals were harvesting shellfish to eat -- including brown crabs, where they preferred larger specimens and cooked them in fires.
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Have model organisms evolved too far?
February 7, 2023 University of Birmingham
A model organism used in laboratories for the past 100 years has evolved so extensively that it may no longer be fit for purpose.
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News Update/Commentary
A fossil fruit from California shows ancestors of coffee and potatoes survived cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs
February 7, 2023 Science Daily
The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day staple crops like coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint.
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News Update/Commentary
Surprises in sea turtle genes could help them adapt to a rapidly changing world
February 7, 2023 Science Daily
Around 100 million years ago, a group of land-dwelling turtles took to the oceans, eventually evolving into the sea turtles we know today. However, the genetic foundations that have enabled them to thrive throughout the world have remained largely unknown
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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”?
February 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss
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How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
February 6, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.
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Neandertals: Mighty Hunters before the Lord!
February 6, 2023 Core Academy of Science
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Questioning cosmic inflation
February 6, 2023 iai News
Rewriting the origins of the universe
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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science
February 6, 2023 Nature
Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence.
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Evolution and Christianity -- is there a conflict?
February 6, 2023 Table Talk
Can you believe in creation and take evolutionary science seriously? How do they work together and are there conflicts? What about Adam and Eve?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans
February 6, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Turkey–Syria earthquake: what scientists know
February 6, 2023 Nature
Turkey and Syria’s buildings have always been vulnerable to earthquakes, but war has made things worse.
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Turkey and Syria devastated by earthquake
February 6, 2023 Temblor
A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. Numerous casualties have been reported, with more expected.
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Has Real Evolution Unfolded in Puerto Rican Lizards?
February 6, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Mistaken Identity Embarrasses Evolutionists
February 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Anyone can make a mistake identifying a fossil, but Darwinism sometimes leads scientists to see what they want to see
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SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
February 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How species partnerships evolve
February 5, 2023 Science Daily
Biologists explored how symbiotic relationships between species evolve to become specific or general, cooperative or antagonistic.
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News Update/Commentary
Study reveals new clues about how ‘Earth's thermostat' controls climate
February 5, 2023 Science Daily
Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help control Earth's climate over thousands of years -- like a thermostat -- through a process called weathering. A new study may improve our understanding of how this thermostat responds as temperatures change.
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Is Dawkins 20-30 Years Behind?
February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent
Denis Noble debates Richard Dawkins