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The Case of the Missing Ancestor
July 1, 2013 National Geographic
DNA from a cave in Russia adds a mysterious new member to the human family
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Genes Are Us. And Them.
July 1, 2013 National Geographic
humans share a quarter of their genes with a grain of rice -- a sign of our common heritage
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New Genetic Insights Show How Tuberculosis May Be Evolving to Become More Dangerous
July 2, 2013 Scientific American
tuberculosis seems to be evolving in unexpected ways that outsmart humans
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More Wonders Going On Inside You
July 2, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Since we all live in a body, we should all feel intrigued with what goes in under our skin. There are more wonders than science can ever fully know. Here are a few recent examples.
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How Beliefs in Extraterrestrials and Intelligent Design Are Similar
July 3, 2013 Scientific American
arguments of divine intervention--alien or otherwise--start with ignorance
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Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years
July 3, 2013 New Scientist, n.2924, p.14
thousands of years before flowers were cultivated, humans were using them to line the graves of their peers
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Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery
July 3, 2013 New Scientist, n.2923, p.40-43
a meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year could finally help to explain what flattened millions of trees in 1908
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Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection
July 3, 2013 New Scientist, n.2923, p.24-25
There were once 5 billion passenger pigeons in the US, but hunting drove them to extinction in just decades. Could genetic techniques bring them back?
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Bizarre Creatures with Incredible Design
July 3, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
animals, whether living or fossil, often show surprising tricks of sensation, adaptation, or ornamentation
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Evolution makes the grade
July 3, 2013 Nature, v.499, p.15-16
Kansas, Kentucky and other states will also teach climate-change science
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Ancient 'starfish' had a helix
July 4, 2013 Nature, v.499, p.9
five rays twisting down from the top of a fossil hint at how creatures such as starfish gained their unusual symmetry
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Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse
July 4, 2013 Nature, v.499, p.74-78
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China's Exquisite Look at Earth's Rocky Husk Wins Raves
July 5, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6141, p.20
China's cabinet is now weighing plans for a 15-year, $6.5 billion effort to peel away the secrets of our planet's crust and uppermost mantle, together known as the lithosphere
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Are Starfish Eyes Missing Links?
July 5, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Starfish are found to have “primitive” image-forming eyes on the tips of their arms. Do these represent links between simple and complex eyes? Some reporters seem to think so.
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Farming Came Too Late in the Evolutionary Timetable
July 6, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Even with generous dates of 10,000 years for the origin of farming, what were modern humans doing for tens of thousands of years or more?
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When Animals Mourn
July 8, 2013 Scientific American
mounting evidence from species as diverse as cats and dolphins indicates that humans are not the only species that grieves over the loss of loved ones
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Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church
July 1, 2003 Arcade Publishing
see also Amazon
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
March 1, 2011 Random House (Bantam)
see also Amazon
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The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates
August 1, 2012 Prometheus
see also Amazon
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Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
September 1, 2012 Overlook Press
see also Amazon
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Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'
September 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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K-Pg extinction: Reevaluation of the heat-fire hypothesis
March 26, 2013 Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, v.118, n.1, p.329-336
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Relentless Evolution
April 1, 2013 University of Chicago Press
see also Amazon
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Influence of water and sediment supply on the stratigraphic record of alluvial fans and deltas: Process controls on stratigraphic completeness
May 14, 2013 Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
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Russian meteor blast was the largest ever recorded by CTBTO
June 10, 2013 Nature News Blog
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Recurrence statistics of great earthquakes
June 21, 2013 Geophysical Research Letters
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News Update/Commentary
27 must-sees on this incredible planet
July 3, 2012 CNN
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Feather Patterning Shows Planning, Foresight
July 6, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Evolutionists Two-Faced About Academic Freedom
July 8, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Compare two countries: in one, when their hegemony is threatened, evolutionists plead for academic freedom. In another, they deny it to those who want a chance to debate evolution
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Primeval Underwater Forest Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
July 8, 2013 Live Science
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To Go Along with the Flight Premiere in Seattle, a Very Cool Bonus
July 9, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Rare Mutation Ignites Race for Cholesterol Drug
July 9, 2013 New York Times
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Stutters in Earth's spin change day length
July 10, 2013 New Scientist, n.2925, p.10
the clearest ever view of how long a day is shows that Earth's spin has stuttered three times in the past decade
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UK proposes piggy-backing to search for alien signals
July 10, 2013 New Scientist, n.2925, p.6-7
a slice of the British space budget could be used to scan for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using data gathered by other pursuits
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News Update/Commentary
Erupt from your typical travel pattern
July 10, 2013 CNN
dynamic earth: six must-see volcanoes
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Setting the Record Straight about Guillermo Gonzalez's Denial of Tenure by Iowa State University
July 10, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Dinosaurs, Diets and Ecological Niches: Study Shows Recipe for Success
July 10, 2013 Science Daily
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Fossil Follies and Mysteries
July 11, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
silently, fossils speak from the earth, requiring translation and interpretation by humans who didn’t see when they were laid to rest
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Can ovarian follicles fossilize?
July 11, 2013 Nature, v.499, p.E1
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Bizarro in blue: Alien planet's color detected for the first time
July 11, 2013 NBC News
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Fossil Musculature of the Most Primitive Jawed Vertebrates
July 12, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6142, p.160-164
fossilized muscles in an ancient armored fish reveal a distinctive neck musculature that differs from that of sharks
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Nature's Other Self-Assemblers
July 12, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6142, p.136-137
materials based on phenolics may provide another natural route to fabricating exotic structures with advanced functionality
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Field Test Shows Selection Works in Mysterious Ways
July 12, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6142, p.118
by studying the survival of dune mice in large outside enclosures, Rowan Barrett has been able to track in real time genetic variants being selected by evolution
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Ancient Text Found in Jerusalem from David’s Time
July 12, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Inscriptions are rare but valuable artifacts in archaeology. Though short and simple, a fragmentary inscription on a jug sets a record as the oldest ever found in Jerusalem, from the era of David and Solomon or before.
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Muscle Power Is Designed, Not Evolutionary
July 13, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the wonder of muscle inspires both awe at its design and opportunities for evolutionary storytelling
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The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree
July 15, 2013 New Scientist, n.2925, p.34-37
the story of our evolution seemed clear, but a string of recent discoveries in Africa is forcing us to radically rethink it
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'Sea monster' whale fossil unearthed
June 30, 2010 BBC News
the Leviathan skull was discovered in 12 million year-old sediments in Peru
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Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction
March 26, 2013 AGU Journal Highlights
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Planet in Distress
March 26, 2013
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Evolution As Stretchy Glue
July 15, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolution is slow and gradual, except when it is very fast. It changes everything, except when it keeps them the same. Recent reports treat evolution as a catch-all idea that explains any phenomenon, even opposite things. Is