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    • Dawkins: God’s Gift to Kansas

      Posted by Billbar from One Good Move

      Admissions of ignorance and mystification are vital to good science. It is therefore galling, to say the least, when enemies of science turn those constructive admissions around and abuse them for political advantage. It is worse than galling. It threatens the enterprise of science itself. This is exactly the effect creationism or ‘intelligent design theory’ (ID) is having, especially because its propagandists are slick, superficially plausible and, above all, well-financed.

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      Evolution Occurs Faster at the Equator

      Posted by Billbar from Live Science

      Shane Wright of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues looked at the rate of molecular evolution for 45 tropical plants and compared it to that of related species living at more temperate latitudes and found that those living in tropical climates evolve faster than those living in more temperate zones. This could help explain why rainforests have such rich biodiversity compared to other parts of the planet.

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      Evolution gets busy in the urban lab

      Posted by Billbar from Codylyonblogolater.blogspot

      An animal is said to be in an evolutionary illusion or trap when it does something it has evolved to do, but at the wrong time or in the wrong place. The concept may help explain why so many squirrels get squashed on city streets, says Joel Brown, an ecologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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      Eager to Tell the Stories of Science, a Biologist Evolves

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      Randy Olson, an Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist made the film about creationism's cousin, intelligent design, called "Flock of Dodos." He wants scientists to get off their collective high horse and make the case for evolution to ordinary people with — if they can muster it — a smile.

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    • Getting Evolution Up to Speed

      Posted by Billbar from Wired

      "People like to think of modern human biology, and especially mental biology, as being the result of selections that took place 100,000 years ago," said University of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn. Lahn recently published the results of a study demonstrating that two key genes connected to brain size are currently under rapid selection in populations throughout the globe.

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