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    • Study, in a First, Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      By reconstructing ancient genes from long-extinct animals, scientists have for the first time demonstrated the step-by-step progression of how evolution created a new piece of molecular machinery by reusing and modifying existing parts. "The evolution of complexity is a longstanding issue in evolutionary biology," said Joseph W. Thornton, professor of biology at the University of Oregon.

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    • An Evolutionary Finding

      Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine

      The finding illustrates one of the intermediate steps taken by our ancient forebears on their slow movement out of the oceans and onto land. "This branch of tree of life is part of our branch of the tree of life," said Neil Shubin, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, "We're talking about the branch of the tree of life that gave rise to everything that has limbs: from amphibians, to mammals, to birds, to reptiles, to us, of course."

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    • The missing link

      Posted by Billbar from arktimes

      The idiotic restrictions in Arkansas schools on teachers when topics best explained using evolution come up in classes. I've been there; I'm not surprised.

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      Strange Bedfellows

      Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine

      On February 20th, the infamously pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute released news that over 500 doctoral scientists had signed its statement "publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution." A February 21st article in The New York Times outed most of the signers of the Discovery Institute statement as evangelical non-biologists, stripping the Institute's claims of whatever credibility the scientists had lent them.

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