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Book
One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life
June 1, 2014 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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We think our enemies are idiots, and that’s a problem
June 16, 2014 Washington Post
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Stem cells: Taking a stand against pseudoscience
June 16, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.333-335
academics working to protect patients from questionable stem-cell therapies share their experiences and opinions of the long, hard fight for evidence to prevail
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Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core
June 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2974, p.17
a huge expanse of water trapped in a layer of the Earth's mantle could help explain the origin of our oceans
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First predator fish crushed armoured prey in its jaws
June 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2974, p.16
a metre-long hunter fish that lived 423 million years ago was the first fish to be a top predator, suggesting that backboned animals like us come from China
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Tree hitched a ride to island
June 18, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.320-321
acacia analysis reveals globetrotting seed trekked 18,000 kilometres from Hawaii to Réunion
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Quanundrum
June 18, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.312
Does reality exist? Fifty years on, Bell’s theorem still divides (and confuses) physicists.
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The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows
June 20, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6190, p.1410-1414
gray hooded crow and black carrion crow genomes reveal the effects of hybridization on keeping the species separate
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Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos
June 20, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6190, p.1358-1363
seventeen skulls from at least 430 thousand years ago illuminate hominin evolutionary patterns in Pleistocene Europe
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Keeping Titan Old
June 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As the Cassini orbiter makes its 103rd close pass by Titan, have long-agers found ways to keep it billions of years old?
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Choosing to Believe in Free Will
June 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Free will matters to children. It had better exist.
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Scientists Equate Evolution to “Stuff Happens”
June 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
researchers generalize findings that evolution depends on rare chance events
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Slowly, Slowly South Carolina Hammers Out a New Science Standard
June 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Colorado River researchers find signs of ancient, devastating floods
June 19, 2014 Los Angeles Times
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The Cell's Postal System
June 19, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Book
Darwin's Doubt Is Recognized as a "Book of the Year" by World Magazine
June 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
How repeatable is evolutionary history?
June 23, 2014 Science Daily
'weakness' in clover genome biases species to evolve same trait
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From Thornton's Lab, More Strong Experimental Support for a Limit to Darwinian Evolution
June 23, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Should the Higgs boson have caused our universe to collapse?
June 24, 2014 Science Daily
findings puzzle cosmologists
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News Update/Commentary
Bizarre parasite from the Jurassic had mouthparts for sucking blood of salamanders
June 24, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Cancer 'as old as multi-cellular life on Earth'
June 24, 2014 Science Daily
researchers discover a primordial cancer in a primitive animal
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News Update/Commentary
Origin of life: Stanley Miller's forgotten experiments, analyzed
June 25, 2014 Science Daily
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New Amazing Animal Discoveries
June 25, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
From spiders to mammals, the living world never ceases to amaze us with new wonders. Some are inspiring new technologies.
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Near-death experiences are overwhelmingly peaceful
June 25, 2014 New Scientist, n.2975, p.17
it turns out it's not so bad to have a dying experience, says the researcher behind the first study into how the cause of trauma affects the content
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Big Bang breakthrough team back-pedals on major result
June 25, 2014 New Scientist, n.2975, p.10
for the first time, the BICEP2 team -- hailed for their gravitational wave discovery earlier this year -- have dialled back on the certainty of the result
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Better to see the beautiful, ugly truth of the cosmos
June 26, 2014 New Scientist, n.2975, p.5
The assumption that the cosmos is symmetrical over large scales is an elegant one, but how far must evidence deviate from expectations before we rethink it?
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Magnetic compass guides butterflies
June 26, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.446
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News Update/Commentary
New theory on cause of ice age 2.6 million years ago
June 27, 2014 Science Daily
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Why Does Biology Still Have the Ability to Surprise Us?
June 27, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Genomic basis for the convergent evolution of electric organs
June 27, 2014 Science, v.344, p.6191, p.1522-1525
multiple divergent fish lineages have used the same evolutionary toolkit to produce electric organs
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Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia
June 27, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6191, p.1504-1506
animal reefs from 550 million years ago suggest a complex ecosystem before the Cambrian explosion
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Light Speed Implications Are Staggering
June 27, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new paper revises the speed of light. This could change everything in the universe.
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Academic Freedom Alert
June 29, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
ask state-run New Mexico science museum why it used "Darwin Day" to promote atheism
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Sunday Funnies
June 29, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are some silly evolution claims crossing the news wires. Some evolutionists appear to have little more to do than speculate and spin stories.
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Existence of Universe Is Highly Improbable
June 30, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
theologians might rightly celebrate a recognition by cosmologists that the universe is so finely-tuned, it shouldn’t exist
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Squeezing the Last Life Out of the Miller Experiment
June 30, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
A first: Scientists show bacteria can evolve biological timer to survive antibiotics
June 30, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of life's operating system revealed in detail
June 30, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Potentially habitable Earth-like planet discovered
June 30, 2014 Science Daily
may have similar temperatures to our planet
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News Update/Commentary
In human evolution, changes in skin's barrier set northern Europeans apart
June 30, 2014 Science Daily
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.43, n.7 (pdf)
July 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Key to adaptation limits of ocean dwellers
July 1, 2014 Science Daily
simpler organisms better suited for climate change
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On Human Origins, a Cautionary Tale with "Surprising" Biological Results
July 1, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Inflation Concocted to Avoid a Young, Perfect Universe
July 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Alan Guth concocted inflation theory in 1980 to avoid evidence for a 10,000-year-old universe. For his wild, evidence-free speculation, he may win a Nobel Prize.
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Mystery fossil rock may be chip off life-inspiring block
July 2, 2014 New Scientist, n.2976, p.15
the strange space rock is unlike anything seen before and seems to be the first known piece of the "bullet" that sparked an explosion of life on early Earth
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Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
July 2, 2014 New Scientist, n.2976, p.10-11
zapping an area deep in our brains turns off consciousness -- suggesting this is where perceptions are bound together into a cohesive experience
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Ancient water cache may be pristine primordial soup
July 2, 2014 New Scientist, n.2976, p.8-9
deep rocks have been cracked open and water isolated for billions of years released -- the liquid may represent Darwin's "warm little pond" where life arose
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Secularists Adrift with Embryonic Ethics
July 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
from stem cells to genetically-modified embryos, technology is outpacing ethical rules, and secular ethicists are at a loss what to endorse
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News Update/Commentary
Extinct human cousin gave Tibetans advantage at high elevation
July 2, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Controversial clues of two 'Goldilocks planets' that might support life are proven false
July 3, 2014 Science Daily