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Water Corridors Helped Homo sapiens Disperse out of Africa
November 2, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Wetland conditions during the last interglacial period in parts of the Levant helped propel our ancestors into Arabia, new research suggests.
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Darwinian Anthropology Is Inherently Elitist
November 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A study on African hunter-gatherer singing borders on racism, elitism, and malpractice
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Interface systems and continuous environmental tracking as a design model for symbiotic relationships
August, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design?
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
First Check the Data
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How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not
November 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
ahead of new book edition
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Finding Ancient Minds in the Human Evolutionary Tree
April 11, 2023 YouTube
John Hawks, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison, gives an update on Homo naledi research in South Africa, and outlines recent discoveries from around the world showing the behavioral complexity of ancient human relatives.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools
October 12, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6671, p.713-718
In 1981, the mandible of an infant hominin was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. Since then, its affinities have been debated, limiting our understanding of its importance.
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Footwear from Over 75,000 Years Ago? Some Fascinating Hints
November 9, 2023 Mind Matters
Some researchers focus on changes in human foot bones, others on evidence of foot protection on ancient trackways
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Exopsychology, the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
November 8, 2023 Psychology Today
Looking outside ourselves could give fresh insights inside ourselves.
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Galápagos finches, rapid speciation, and recent creation
November 9, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Eating meat may not have ‘made us human,' contrary to popular theory
November 8, 2023 Live Science
Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists.
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Brain and body are more intertwined than we knew
November 8, 2023 Nature
A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, in fact, tightly coupled to nervous-system activity.
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These incredible images are the first from dark-energy telescope Euclid
November 8, 2023 Nature
A spiral galaxy and the Horsehead Nebula are among the first pictures released by ESA’s Universe-mapping observatory.
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How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights
November 6, 2023 Nature
Ancient-genomics studies are boosting efforts to save Scotland’s endangered ‘Highland tigers’ -- and keep them separate from domestic cats.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters
November 8, 2023 Nature, v.623, p.296-300
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Ultra-compact oddities are galaxies stripped of stars
November 8, 2023 Nature
Observations have shown that some dwarf galaxies lose their stars through interactions with more massive galaxies. The dense nuclei that remain are ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, the origin of which has long been a subject of debate.
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Giant black hole is one of the earliest ever seen -- with clues for how these weird objects form
November 6, 2023 Nature
Data from the James Webb and Chandra space telescopes reveal a massive object in a galaxy that formed less than half a billion years after the Big Bang.
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A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins
November 8, 2023 New Scientist
The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a distinct moment of cosmic creation, potentially transforming our view of the early universe
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Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA
November 8, 2023 Nature
Highly edited strain survives and replicates despite containing 7.5 artificial chromosomes.
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News Update/Commentary
Previous genetic association studies involving people with European ancestry may be inaccurate
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Failing to account for mixed genetic lineages could lead to inaccuracies
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Darwinism Is Useless in Fossil Discoveries
November 9, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Like a rabbit’s foot, Darwinian paleontologists hope saying “evolution” will bring them good luck
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How Sunflowers “See'' the Sun
November 9, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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“Why I Went to WAR with Stephen Hawking!” Leonard Susskind
November 5, 2023 YouTube
What's really going on in a black hole? Why are there so many theories of everything? Did Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers of string theory, ever feel like an impostor? And why did he fight with Stephen Hawking?
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Origin of Life Challenge
November 7, 2023 YouTube
Results + Huge announcement
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Way Into a Tidy Evolutionary Tree?
November 7, 2023 Mind Matters
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost “alien" species
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Genetic methods enable the use of fossil lipids as biomarkers for oxygen-producing primordial bacteria
October 27, 2023 EurekAlert!
New study in Nature Ecology & Evolution provides important basis for deciphering the evolutionary history of life on Earth
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Homochirality and the Origin of Life
November 1, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
November 6, 2023 Quillette
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
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Who Should Fund Science?
November 4, 2023 Quillette
The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods.
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Hearing from our Cretaceous ancestors: a remarkable fossil discovery in Jehol Biota
November 1, 2023 Springer Nature
The evolution of the middle ear in early therians remains enigmatic. Our recent discovery of a detached, microtype ear in a newly uncovered Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal addresses this mystery
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Blog Post
Free Will and the Sapolsky Paradox
November 5, 2023
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News Update/Commentary
Genome sequencing reveals why songbirds are larger in colder climates
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have unlocked the genetic basis underlying the remarkable variation in body size observed in song sparrows, one of North America's most familiar and beloved songbirds.
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Enceladus has All the Raw Materials for Life
November 7, 2023 Universe Today
Saturn's moon Enceladus isn't just bright and beautiful. It has an ocean under all that ice that has chemicals necessary for life.
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New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life
November 7, 2023 Pennsylvania State University
Window to the past
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The mind-body problem is ruining our health
November 6, 2023 iai News
Medicine’s Cartesian struggles
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A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe
October 30, 2023 Scientific American
Several unexplained measurements are threatening to upend scientists’ understanding of the universe’s origin and fate
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Crabs evolved to live away from the ocean up to 17 different times
November 6, 2023 New Scientist
Unlike most other animal groups that left the sea behind, crabs have done it many times throughout their evolutionary history -- and some crab lineages have even reversed course back to the ocean
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A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe
November 5, 2023 New York Times
The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.
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Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
November 7, 2023 Nature
This is the third high-profile retraction for Ranga Dias. Researchers worry the controversy is damaging the field’s reputation.
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The dust that may have killed the dinosaurs
October 31, 2023 Physics Today
Paleoclimate simulations suggest that only dust could have shut down photosynthesis for two years after the Chicxulub impact.
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How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
November 6, 2023 Nature
An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Middle ear innovation in Early Cretaceous eutherian mammals
October 26, 2023 Nature Communications
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Speciation Is Not Evolution
November 6, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Clearing up the misconceptions between species and biblical kinds
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Christian Chemist Trounces 10 Leading OoL Researchers
November 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
James Tour’s easy challenge to origin-of-life leaders is a total victory against chemical evolution
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Salty Sweat in a Desert Plant
November 6, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Deep Time Leads to Absurd Conclusion
November 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The circularity of assuming Darwinism and deep time slams headlong against logic
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Your Nose Smells in Stereo
November 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientific understanding of olfactory information content reaching the brain has just doubled
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When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?
November 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today