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• The Second Law of Thermodynamics and a Theory of the Origin of Life Itself

  

  I have in all my time of reading science, and science news, never quite experienced the absolute abstraction of objectivity, as I did this morning. Read more

  The 24 January 2014 by   Philipmarais
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• Surprising Human Hand Bone Challenges Evolution

  

  The Institute for Creation Research is an organisation which spins science news to support the notion that the earth was created 6,000 or so years ago. Read more

  The 27 January 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Sewall Wright's Last Paper

  

  Sewall Wright lived to be 98. Two months before he died he published a paper in The American Naturalist titled Surfaces of Selective Value Revisited (Wright,... Read more

  The 27 January 2014 by   Bjornostman
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• Neanderthal Genes Helped Humans Adapt

  

  Neanderthals were our cousins who lived in Europe from 600,000 to ~30,000 years ago. Despite being quite different from us there were enough genetic similaritie... Read more

  The 30 January 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Dogs Evolved to Be Cute

  

  A 33,000 year old proto-dog skull from BeligumWolves were one of the first animals to be domesticated, with genetic data indicating it may have occurred as earl... Read more

  The 07 January 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Genetic Codes May Not Be Found Only in Our DNA

  

  The Greatest surprise of the century might prove a hypothesis, according to which our genetic codes are not found only in the DNA molecule. Read more

  The 29 January 2014 by   Vall444
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• Far Above Cayuga's Waters...

  

  Another week of sub-zero weather here in Utopia, NY, and still Cayuga's waters (the ones we are far above) stubbornly remain waters, not ice. Read more

  The 24 January 2014 by   Allen_macneill
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• Neanderthals More Innovative Than We Thought?

  

  Some classic Mousterian toolsNeanderthals created and used a suite of stone tools known as the Mousterian industry. When this toolkit was first created 200,000... Read more

  The 28 January 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Humans and Chimps Diverged Earlier Than Previously Thought; Part 2

  

  Genetic data indicates humans and chimps split ~7 million years ago. This is typically calculated by looking at how many mutations separate us from chimps and... Read more

  The 23 January 2014 by   Reprieve
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