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Buried Treasure Found Under the Ocean: DNA
May 11, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the most information-rich medium known to man has been found in abundance under the sea, but man didn’t put it there
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Moon Water and Magnetism Mystifies Astronomers
May 12, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two mysteries from the moon are forcing revisions to textbooks. One concerns water in moon minerals. The other concerns the moon’s magnetic field.
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Stephen Meyer's "The Return of the God Hypothesis"
May 13, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Talking Plants and Secret Networks
May 13, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
There was a time when talking plants was mythology. Now, it’s science.
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Surprising Animals Go to Extremes
May 14, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
today’s entry features a mammal, a bird and an insect that have good reasons to show off
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Mount Everest's Ice Is Melting
May 14, 2013 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil Saved from Mule Track Revolutionizes Understanding of Ancient Dolphin-Like Marine Reptile
May 14, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Billion-Year-Old Water Could Hold Clues to Life on Earth and Mars
May 15, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Mum and Dad Dinosaurs Shared the Work
May 15, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Untangling the Tree of Life
May 15, 2013 Science Daily
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The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal
October 1, 2012 Indiana University Press
see also Amazon
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
March 1, 2013 Yale University Press
see also Amazon
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In the Context of Human Artifacts, Something Like Darwinian Evolution Actually Does Happen
May 14, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Meeting targets lab lapses
May 14, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.300-301
attendees search for ways to tackle misconduct and sloppy science
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Magnetar found at giant black hole
May 14, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.296-297
magnetized neutron star could test Einstein’s theory
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Neanderthal culture: Old masters
May 15, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.302–304
the earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient water found in Canadian mine
May 15, 2013 CNN
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Canadian mine may host 2.6-billion-year-old ecosystem
May 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917, p.10
water circulating through rock fractures deep underground has been isolated from the rest of the planet for billions of years -- does it harbour ancient life?
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Moon water came from young wet Earth
May 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917, p.15
glass embedded in Apollo moon rocks hints that early Earth was born wet, and that it held on to that water long enough to donate some to the moon
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Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech
May 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917, p.14
tiny middle ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies
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Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?
May 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917, p.9
Fossils of the earliest ape and Old World monkey ever unearthed were found in the tectonically active East African Rift. Did the rift boost their evolution?
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Consciousness: The what, why and how
May 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917
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Darwin’s Tree of Life is a Tangled Bramble Bush
May 15, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
researchers at Vanderbilt University are tied up in knots trying to locate Darwin’s branching tree in contradictory data
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Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals
May 16, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.327-331
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Flow sorting for fossil pollen
May 16, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.291
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontology: The Eloquence of Otoliths Seen in a 23-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil
May 16, 2013 Science Daily
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Out-of-Order Fossils Make Darwinists Wave Hands
May 16, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When a fossil violates Darwinist expectations, it never falsifies the theory. It just creates a new round of imaginative gesticulations.
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Complexity from Simplicity
May 17, 2013 Science, v.340, n.6134, p.822-823
manipulation of crystal growth conditions results in the controlled formation of complex micrometer-scale shapes
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Our Viral Inheritance
May 17, 2013 Science, v.340, n.6134, p.820-821
viruses incorporated into vertebrate genomes may reemerge after long periods of dormancy to play a range of biological roles in their host
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More Genomes from Denisova Cave Show Mixing of Early Human Groups
May 17, 2013 Science, v.340, n.6134, p.799
analyses of three fossil samples using a powerful new method paint a complex picture of mingling among different ancient human groups
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Human Cloning Is Back
May 17, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If you thought work on human cloning and embryonic stem cell research went out of style with the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells, watch out. The pro-cloning people, who never lost their lust for toying with human
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Evolutionists Confess to Lying
May 18, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If lying evolved as a fitness strategy, can we believe anything an evolutionist says?
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Prosociality and Cooperation: Evolution vs. Prayer
May 19, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Cooperation exists in nature. Does that mean it evolved? Only if evolution is the sole mechanism in your toolkit.
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Tracing the roots of human morality in animals
May 21, 2013 New Scientist, n.2917, p.48
we must be careful when studying animals to learn about the origins of human traits and behaviours
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News Update/Commentary
Bird Fossil Sheds Light on How Swift and Hummingbird Flight Came to Be
May 1, 2013 Science Daily
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Earth's crust had a billion-year youthful rampage
May 7, 2013 New Scientist, n.2916
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Profiles of ocean island coral reefs controlled by sea-level history and carbonate accumulation rates
May 9, 2013 Geology, v.41
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Small, Speedy Plant-Eater Extends Knowledge of Dinosaur Ecosystems
May 22, 2013 Science Daily
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Chronicle of Higher Ed on Nagel: Yeah, We Knew It All Along
May 17, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Molecular Machines and the Problematic RNA World
May 20, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Introducing a New Intelligent Design Curriculum: Discovering Intelligent Design
May 21, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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At Ball State University, Intimidation Campaign Against Physicist Gets Troubling Results
May 22, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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From Tiny Bones to Whopper Conclusions
May 20, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It doesn’t take much to stimulate an evolutionist’s imagination. A tiny middle ear bone will do.
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Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster
May 22, 2013 New Scientist, n.2918, p.16
the barium levels in a Neanderthal child's molar indicate its mother stopped breastfeeding at 14 months -- more than a year earlier than modern humans
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Shades of grey
May 22, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.410
it is risky to oversimplify science for the sake of a clear public-health message
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'Ghost' reptile lived late
May 23, 2013 Nature, v.497, p.413
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News Update/Commentary
This dinosaur ate like a falcon
May 23, 2013 CNN
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The Evolution of Penguins
May 23, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
science reporters are dancing with happy feet about a news story supposedly explaining how penguins evolved
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Roach Bait Story Highlights Abuse of Word “Evolution”
May 25, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolution is one of the most carelessly-used words in science, as several recent articles show. Not all change is evolution the way Darwin meant it.