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• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast

  April 9, 2014 Science Daily

  a massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slams into Earth

• Flimsy rocks allowed Earth's plates to start moving

  April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.16

  Earth is the only planet whose surface is known to be divided into shifting tectonic plates. An analysis of fragile rock may explain why.

• Human 'missing link' fossils may be jumble of species

  April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.11

  the extinct Australopithecus sediba is hailed as a transitional form between ape-like australopithecines and early humans, but it may actually be two species

• Meet your unborn child -- before it's even conceived

  April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.8-9

  a service that creates digital embryos by virtually mixing two people's DNA will allow parents to screen out genetic disorders -- and perhaps much more

• Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos

  April 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.5

  the ability to create simulations of unconceived children by virtually shuffling the prospective parents' genomes poses questions for us all

• News Update/Commentary

  Rare fossilized embryos more than 500 million years old found

  April 10, 2014 University of Missouri, Columbia Science Daily

• Fossil Plant Soft Tissue Didn’t Evolve

  April 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  original material in a fossil has been detected, this time from a leaf that is identical to modern leaves despite an alleged 50 million years

• Your Cells Work for You

  April 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  At a cellular level, the human body has a dizzying array of workers. Here are a few recent examples discovered.

• News Update/Commentary

  Computer rendering: Graduate student brings extinct plants 'back to life'

  April 11, 2014 Science Daily

  most fossilized plants are fragments indistinguishable from a stick, but a graduate student hopes a new technique will allow paleontologists to more precisely identify these fossils

• Acquisition of Germ Plasm Accelerates Vertebrate Evolution

  April 11, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6180, p.200-203

  evolutionary rates are phylogenetically correlated with how germ cells are specified

• Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

  April 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.45-47

  What looked like a classic conservation success story nearly ended in disaster. The Chatham Island black robin reveals the hidden perils of intervention.

• Four-eyed Daddy Longlegs Fossil Fills in Evolutionary Tree

  April 14, 2014

• Book

  The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life

  January 1, 2014 Basic Books

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• The National Center for ID Obfuscation

  April 9, 2014 Stephen H. Webb Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• In Twin Cases, "Academic Integrity" Is Newspeak for "Speech Code"

  April 11, 2014 Joshua Youngkin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Does the Evidence Point to Mankind's Fully Natural Origin?

  April 14, 2014 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  Neanderthals and Cro-magnons did not coexist on the Iberian Peninsula, suggests re-analysis of dating

  April 14, 2014 University of the Basque Country Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Does germ plasm accelerate evolution?

  April 14, 2014 University of Nottingham Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  New study outlines 'water world' theory of life's origins

  April 15, 2014 NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory Science Daily

• No more primal soup: Creating life without water

  April 16, 2014 New Scientist, n.2965, p.36-39

  the last thing the first life needed was a wet environment -- so did it even start here on Earth?

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient shark fossil reveals new insights into jaw evolution

  April 16, 2014 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Crucial new information about how the ice ages came about

  April 16, 2014 University of Southampton Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Earliest ancestor of land herbivores discovered: 300-million-year-old predator showed way to modern terrestrial ecosystem

  April 16, 2014 University of Toronto Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  There's something ancient in the icebox: Three-million-year-old landscape beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

  April 17, 2014 University of Vermont Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed by Gemini and Keck observatories

  April 17, 2014 Gemini Observatory Science Daily

• A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation

  April 17, 2014 Jonathan H. Geisler, Matthew W. Colbert, and James L. Carew Nature, v.508, p.383-386

• Evolutionary biology: Dating chimpanzees

  April 17, 2014 Nature, v.508, p.322-323

  genetic research has tracked lineages of male chimpanzees thousands of years into the past, opening the door to the study of long-term behavioural evolution in our close primate relatives

• Ancient lion DNA yields family tree

  April 17, 2014 Nature, v.508, p.290

• Flailing Blindly: The Pseudoscience of Josh Rosenau and Carl Zimmer

  April 17, 2014 Jonathan Wells Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Ancient DNA Holds Clues to Gene Activity in Extinct Humans

  April 18, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6181, p.245-246

  researchers have harnessed the chemical degradation of fossil DNA to determine methylation patterns that may reveal which genes were turned on, or off, in ancient human species

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient DNA: Barnyard chickens living just a few hundred years ago looked far different from today's chickens

  April 18, 2014 Science Daily

  analyzing DNA from the bones of chickens that lived 200-2,300 years ago in Europe, researchers report that some of the traits we associate with modern domestic chickens only became widespread in the last 500 years, much more recently than

• On ignorance, bias, data, and the tentative nature of (scientific) interpretations

  March 18, 2014 American Geophysical Union (blog)

• Latest BIO-Complexity Paper Finds that on Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe Has Not Been Refuted

  April 18, 2014 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Hairy Science: Do Beards Evolve?

  April 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  noting shifting fashions in men’s facial hair, some evolutionists are trying to link them to Darwinism

• Did Jesus Evolve? Secularists Make Hay at Easter

  April 20, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  It’s Easter time. That means the secularists are hatching and buzzing like cicadas with their latest attempts to debunk the Bible’s account of Christ and his miracles.

• Story Time: Psychologists Show How to "Suppress" Children's Intuition of Design in Nature

  April 20, 2014 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  First Eurasians left Africa up to 130,000 years ago

  April 21, 2014 Science Daily

  anatomically modern humans spread from Africa to Asia and Europe in several migratory movements

• Students Know Less About Evolution After Taking Biology

  April 21, 2014 Science

• News Update/Commentary

  How are we different and what gave us the advantage over extinct types of humans like the Neanderthals?

  April 22, 2014 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Science Daily

• Book

  Cosmos Episode 6: Science as the New Sacred, and Failed Darwinian Predictions About Insects and Flowers

  April 16, 2014 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Book

  Flight from the Absolute: A Heavyweight Look at the Negative Impact of Modern and Postmodern Philosophies

  April 22, 2014 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  Male or female? First sex-determining genes appeared in mammals some 180 million years ago

  April 23, 2014 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Oldest pterodactyloid species discovered: Primitive flying reptile took wing 163 million years ago

  April 24, 2014 George Washington University Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Reconstructed ancient ocean reveals secrets about the origin of life

  April 25, 2014 European Molecular Biology Organization Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Traces of recent water on Mars: Liquid water on Mars as recently as 200,000 years ago

  April 25, 2014 University of Gothenburg Science Daily

• Chile quake defies expectations

  April 22, 2014 Nature, v.508, p.440-441

  smaller-than-expected tremor has scientists scrambling to redefine rules for areas of extreme seismic stress

• T. rex didn't need proper arms thanks to its neck

  April 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2966, p.17

  Tyrannosaurus rex was terrifying, apart from its silly little arms -- but now it turns out that it didn't need proper arms because its neck was so powerful

• Star dust casts doubt on recent big bang wave result

  April 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2966, p.14

  dust left over from an exploding star could mimic the effect that primordial gravitational waves would have had on ancient cosmic light

• Big bang breakthrough: The dark side of inflation

  April 24, 2014 New Scientist, n.2966, p.32-35

  the sighting of gravitational waves from the universe's birth is a great advance -- but if confirmed might also be the ultimate setback for cosmology

• How a flesh-eater evolved

  April 24, 2014 Nature, v.508, p.435