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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, August 31, 2015
The origin of eukaryotes and the ring of life
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The latest issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Sept. 26, 2015) is devoted to Eukaryotic origins: progress and chall...
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A little learning of biochemistry ...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the bra...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Ten discoveries that would change the way we think about ourselves
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New Scientist has published a list of ten ideas that, if true, would change the way we perceive ourselves and our place in the universe [ W...
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IDiots promote twenty-two falsified predictions of Darwin's theory of evolution
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Cornelius Hunter is a fellow at the Center for Science and Culture (Discovery Institute). That makes him a card-carrying Intelligent Design...
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Jerry Coyne doubles down on his criticism of how evolution is taught in Ontario schools
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A few weeks ago, Jerry Coyne got his knickers in a knot because the Ontario school curriculum didn't specifically prescribe the teaching...
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Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies
by Graeme Finlay
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Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. The author is Graeme Finlay, a can...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Inside the mind of an Intelligent Design Creationist
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The blog Evolution News & Views (sic) is part of the public outreach of The Center for Science and Culture , a subsidiary of the The Di...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Eukaryotic genes come from alphaproteobacteria, cynaobacteria, and two groups of Archaea
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Bill Martin and a group of collaborators from several countries have analyzed gene trees from a wide variety of species (Ku et al., 2015). T...
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Jesus and Mo
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Jesus and Mo, August 26, 2015
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The apophenia of ENCODE or Pangloss looks at the human genome
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This is a paper in French by Casane et al. (2015). Most of you won't be able to read it but the English abstract gives you the gist of t...
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Monday, August 24, 2015
The genealogy of Jesus
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I saw this at The Cloisters when I was in New York last week. It's very hard to read 1 so I'm not sure if it's accurate. Her...
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IDiots, suckers, and the octopus genome
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The genome of the small octopus, Octopus bimaculoides has recently been sequenced. The results are reported in Nature (Albertin et al., 20...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
Comets and meteorites CAN NOT create a primordial soup in the ocean
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I want to talk about two recent press releases on the origin of life. The first one is from the BBC and it talks about the work of Haruna ...
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What am I doing on my summer vacation?
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Here's what I'm doing this summer (right) when I'm not fighting creationists , writing a book , giving talks , playing with the ...
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How do Intelligent Design Creationists deal with pseudogenes and false claims?
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Some of the people who comment here have pointed out that this is the second anniversary of a post by Jonathan McLatchie on Evolution News &...
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