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Geneticist Jerry Crabtree jumps on the natural-selection-for-humans-is-dead bandwagon with a study of human intelligence that doesn't say what he thinks it does.
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Creationists aren't happy with scientists' discoveries showing dinosaurs not as giant brutes, but diverse, nimble, and often bird-like.
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Creationists expect science to tell them soothing tales about their place in the universe. That's just not going to happen.
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Believe it or not, DNA is not the only hereditary molecule out there. In fact, it's one of many molecules that could form the backbone of gene pools.
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For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.
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Evolutionary psychology sounds like a fruitful pursuit, but it's probably barking up the wrong tree as a discipline.
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John Horgan is on the warpath against Craig Venter because... the media prominently covered Venter's latest breakthrough with synthetic life?
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A study of how proteins are encoded and translated across a dozen species shows that life on Earth had only one population of universal common ancestors.
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Both brains and microchips try to find the most efficient way to conduct electrical signals. And that has a profound effect on how brains grow and evolve.
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According to a Muslim creationist, Allah is less of a deity and more of a programmer with a mad scientist streak.