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• Just Announced: Strange Signals from the Galaxy's Center

  October 16, 2021 Mind Matters

  Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.”

• Physicist: Copernican Principle Doesn't Make Earth Insignificant

  October 16, 2021 Mind Matters

  That, Marcelo Gleiser says, is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science

• GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information Theory

  October 15, 2021 Mind Matters

  Not mechanism. If Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a good approach to consciousness, there is no “consciousness spot” in the brain.

• Partisan Science in America

  October 11, 2021 Gary Saul Morson Wall Street Journal

  Scientists corrode public trust when they pretend to have authority on social and political matters.

• Why are viruses considered non-living?

  October 15, 2021 Jake Port Cosmos Magazine

  Viruses lack many of the features that are considered signs of life.

• News Update/Commentary

  Plant-eating lizards on the cusp of tooth evolution

  October 15, 2021 University of Helsinki Science Daily

  Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their tooth evolution was not unidirectional.

• Reptiles Evolved, De-Evolved, Re-Evolved Teeth

  October 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Tan and Stadler’s Recent Book Tackles Claims of Life from the Lab

  October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Finding Re Endangered Snakes Is the Opposite of Classic Theory

  October 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  plus some interesting snake evolution news

• Greener, Wetter Arabia Was a Crossroads of Early Human Migration

  October 7, 2021 J. Besl Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Hand axes, hippo bones, and a stack of ancient lake beds show that arid Arabia experienced intervals of humid weather, spurring pulses of human migration over the past 400,000 years.

• How to become a crab: Phenotypic constraints on a recurring body plan

  March 9, 2021 Joanna M. Wolfe, Javier Luque, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom BioEssays

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A vast pool of lineage-specific microproteins encoded by long non-coding RNAs in plants

  September 27, 2021 Igor Fesenko, et al. Nucleic Acids Research, v.49, n.18

• How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes

  October 14, 2021 Doug Johnson ars technica

  The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity.

• What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

  October 14, 2021 Josie Glausiusz sapiens

  Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability.

• Book

  Twelve rounds, twelve knockouts

  August, 2020 Royal Truman Creation Ministries International

  REVIEW: The Stairway to Life: An Origin-of-Life Reality Check by Change Laura Tan and Rob Stadler (Evorevo Books, 2020) | See Also Amazon

• Snakes started eating birds and mammals after dinosaurs went extinct

  October 14, 2021 Chen Ly New Scientist

• Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don't Know Why

  October 14, 2021 Ed Browne Newsweek

• T. rex with feathers: China’s fossils are rewriting the dinosaur story

  October 13, 2021 Michael Benton New Scientist

  Twenty-five years ago, Chinese scientists revealed the first feathered dinosaur. Since then, they have unearthed a treasure trove of exquisitely preserved specimens that put dinosaurs in a whole new light

• News Update/Commentary

  Big differences found in male and female jojoba plant sex genes

  October 14, 2021 University of Queensland Science Daily

  New research suggests male and female jojoba plants have diverged so much, that the jojoba plant has more novel sex genes than any other known living organism.

• Classifier of Life Forms Linnaeus Gets the Chop Due to Concerns About Racism

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• A 2010 Oxford U Press Book on “Unintelligent Design” Seems So Dated Now

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Another Shot in the Campaign Against the Big Bang

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Horrors! Our Stone Age Ancestors… SMOKED!!

  October 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Does Morality Really Exist? If So, Does It Come from God?

  October 13, 2021 Mind Matters

  Matt Dillahunty now challenges Michael Egnor: There is no way to know whether a moral doctrine represents any reality apart from belief

• What if the universe had no beginning?

  October 11, 2021 Paul Sutter Live Science

• Can Einstein’s forgotten theory of space solve the cosmology crisis?

  October 13, 2021 Paul M. Sutter New Scientist

  Decades ago, Einstein concocted a theory in which space doesn't just curve, but swirls like a cyclone. Now it is making a comeback because it could fix several of the biggest problems in cosmology

• Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

  October 14, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

  October 13, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

  October 14, 2021 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Ethan Siegel Makes Another Paper Assault on the Big Bang

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Science Uprising 8: Why Materialism Needs Ape Ancestors

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Templeton Flirts with Finding Purpose in Biology

  October 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  but fully natural purpose!

• An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 -- Observations

  October 13, 2021 at Bio-Complexity Uncommon Descent

• Nobel Prize Medicine Win Solves a Mystery in Hot, Cold Sensing

  October 13, 2021 Mind Matters

  Researchers discovered the exact path by which chili peppers feel “hot” and mints feel “cold” when the signals reach our brains.

• Rethinking Causation for Data-intensive Biology: Constraints, Cancellations, and Quantized Organisms

  June 2, 2020 Douglas E. Brash BioEssays

  Causality in complex organisms is sculpted by constraints rather than instigators, with outcomes perhaps better described by quantized patterns than rectilinear pathways

• An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 -- Observations

  October 13, 2021 Waldean A. Schulz BIO-Complexity

• An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 2 -- Analytic View

  September 6, 2021 Waldean A. Schulz BIO-Complexity

• An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 1 -- Constructive View

  July 2, 2021 Waldean A. Schulz BIO-Complexity

• The human neck is a mistake of evolution

  October 12, 2021 Matthew Rozsa Salon

  Sleep apnea, which afflicts 1 out of 15 Americans, is a consequence of too many adaptations “stuffed" into our neck

• Book

  Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design

  February, 2010 John C. Avise Oxford University Press

  Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent -- we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance -- but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes?

• Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore

  October 13, 2021 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we're not so sure.

• Genomic signatures of inbreeding and mutation load in a threatened rattlesnake

  August 16, 2021 Alexander Ochoa and H. Lisle Gibbs Molecular Ecology

• “The Scientific Method” and the Flat Earth -- III

  October 8, 2021 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

• Transposable elements shape the evolution of mammalian development

  August 5, 2021 Anna D. Senft and Todd S. Macfarlan Nature Reviews Genetics, v.22, p.691-711

• Penguins have rare ability to recognise each other's faces and voices

  October 12, 2021 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

• Rails derail Darwinism

  October, 2020 Matthew Cserhati Creation Ministries International

  Loss of flight is not evolution

• News Update/Commentary

  Brain damage from long stays in space

  October 12, 2021 University of Gothenburg Science Daily

  Spending a long time in space appears to cause brain damage. This is shown by a study of five Russian cosmonauts who had stayed on the International Space Station (ISS).

• News Update/Commentary

  Common respiratory virus manipulates immune genes to protect itself

  October 12, 2021 Washington University School of Medicine Science Daily

  Findings could lead to better therapies for respiratory syncytial virus infection

• News Update/Commentary

  Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid

  October 13, 2021 Cornell University Science Daily

  When an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals that survived, according to a new study.

• News Update/Commentary

  Genes and collective behavior

  October 13, 2021 University of Konstanz Science Daily

  The targeted manipulation of individual genes in zebrafish larvae changes their behavioral responses to visual stimuli and thus affects the collective behavior of the animals.