Monday, March 29, 2010

On The Wings of Evolution

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Dan Vergano of ooh-es-ahh-heute (USAToday) has a story on how wings may have evolved in insects. They plainly have creationists in the cro...

New Gordon Glover Design Detectives Video Up

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Gordon Glover has launched another of his "Design Detectives" videos over at his YouTube channel. We are now up to number four a...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Francisco Ayala Wins Templeton Award, Discovery Institute Responds

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Francisco Ayala, the genetics and evolutionary biology professor at UC Irvine and former Dominican priest, has won the 2009 Templeton Award,...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Possible New Hominid Species Discovered in Siberia

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Reuters is running with a story about genetic research being done on hominid material discovered in Siberia that, according to researchers,...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Earliest North American Bird

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PR Newswire is reporting on the discovery of the earliest fossilized bird in North America. The story notes: The new shoreline-inhabiting ...

The Evolution of On the Origins of Species

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Ben Fry has come up with an interesting take on how Charles Darwin's book On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection chan...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Laetoli Footprints Those of Completely Bipedal Human

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Thirty years ago, a set of footprints was discovered in an ash layer at the African site of Laetoli and dated to 3.6 million years ago. Thi...

New Smithsonian Human Origins Exhibit

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The Smithsonian Institution has unveiled their new human origins exhibit and if ever there was a reason for a trip to D.C., this is it. Dan...
Monday, March 22, 2010

The Guardian Backpeddles

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In the wake of Oliver Burkeman's ill-advised editorial in the Guardian, which was taken to the cleaners by Jerry Coyne and others, Adam ...

Australia's Fossil Graveyard

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The Brisbane Times is reporting on the Billabong graveyard in western Australia that is teaming with fish. Deborah Smith writes: DEATH cam...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Testimony of a Former Young Earth Creationist

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Terry Gray points to a post on the ASA site by Dr. Joshua Zorn, a former young earth creationist who went on to get a Ph.D. in physics. It...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Armored Contemporary of the Trilobite

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A rare fossil has been discovered in the middle of the city of Ottawa. Terra Daily reports on this amazing find: Plumulitids were annelid ...

Nonsense at the Guardian

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It is always a bit amusing when a non-scientist uses a tired analogy to prove a point that he or she wants to make. Oliver Burkeman of the ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

New Research Pushes Back Occupation of Flores

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It is now thought that the inhabitants of the island of Flores, from whence come the hominid euphemistically known as "the hobbit,...

Climate Change and Human Evolution

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ScienceDaily is reporting on an initiative by the National Research Council to understand how past climatic disturbances affected human evo...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Pictures of the Liang Bua Excavations

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The Sacramento Bee has lots of high resolution pictures of the excavations taking place at Liang Bua, the site of the discovery of Homo flo...
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The Nexus Gets More Heated

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New Scientist has a story on the connection between global warming and creationism, which has everyone's dandruff up. Deborah MacKenz...
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Growing Up Science-Literate in Japan

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My guest column over at Steve Martin's blog is up, titled Growing up Science-Literate in Japan . ---------------- Now playing: Peter Gab...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Steve Matheson Takes on Signature in the Cell

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Steve Matheson, professor of biology at Calvin College in Michigan has been going through Stephen Meyer's The Signature in the Cell . H...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Acceptance of Human Evolution

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And as if to drive home the point, UPI has a story recounting research that suggests that if students are accepting of an ancient age of the...