Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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Update on the Orangutan story. The story notes that it is the research of Erica Cartmill, not Matt Cartmill. My bad.

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Whenever I find people tempted to believe that the fossil record was created by the worldwide flood in Noah's time, I always point them ...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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Playing charades with orangutans . A Foxnews story relates the research of Matt Cartmill on primate communications. The story notes: ...

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Apparently the Geico ads aren't so far off. " Study : Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women." Take that...

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I am not a fan of recent earth creationism, but if this story is true, this kind of silencing is worse. It seems as though there is a fin...
Friday, August 24, 2007

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Bigger and better chronometric dating methods on the horizon . Hat tip to the ASA.

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The area of the brain responsible for "free won't" has been found . Hat tip to the ASA.

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The American Scientific Affiliation has a science blog here .

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The Texas Board of Education is leaning away from ID. Among the surprising statements: Creationism and intelligent design don't belon...

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Another paper about the teeth of Chororapithecus with a bit more detail. My friend Art Durband at Texas Tech says "it must be nice wh...

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More hominid remains have been found that seem to push the ape-human split back even further. As Yohannes Haile-Selassie says: The most s...

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A friend of mine here at the lab handed me an old opinion piece by William Provine in the September 8, 1985 issue of The Scientist , calle...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

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The Independent reports on the success of the new Creation museum in Kentucky. Amid the derision, there are some interesting bits: But wait...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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Only in today's charged climate would this actually make news: "Ohio School to Mark Darwin's Birth, Work."

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David Flanigan tackles the notion of evolution in Blog.Critic and largely gets the concept of "theory" wrong. He states: Accordi...

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Eugene Volokh muses about Taner Edis, Islamic science and a response by Ace of Spades.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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An editorial in the Boston Globe by Sally Lehrman addresses why understanding the theory of evolution is so important to those following t...

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Jesse Smith of The Smart Set visits the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Light on evaluation of the science at the museum but a fascinating re...

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More commentary on the Homo habilis finds that have rattled the cages of more than a few palaeoanthropologists.

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Tim Weaver and Chris Stringer claim that the Neandertal physiognomy owed less to evolutionary adaptations than to chance. Hmmm. Not sure ...