Evolution

Utah House Kills Evolution Teaching Bill

Posted by Billbar from ABC News

Public schools won't have to change the way they teach evolution, after the House on Monday gutted, and then killed, a bill that would have required science courses to mention alternative theories.

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Predators 'drove human evolution'

Posted by Billbar from BBC News

"Our intelligence, co-operation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator," said Robert Sussman of Washington University in St Louis. According to the theory espoused by Professor Sussman, early humans evolved not as hunters but as prey for animals such as wild dogs, cats, hyenas, eagles and crocodiles.

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Unintelligent Design

Posted by Billbar from Discover

A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth

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Dodos film pecks holes in evolution debate

Posted by Billbar from News.com

There's nothing like evolution to get an audience riled up, scientist and filmmaker Randy Olson has discovered.

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Colour vision evolved to spot our blushes

Posted by Billbar from Codylyonblogolater.blogspot

Colour vision may have evolved in primates, the only mammals with the ability to see in colour, to help them pick up on changes in blood and oxygen concentrations beneath the skin’s surface, giving access to emotional cues.

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Scientists Force Evolution in the Lab

Posted by Billbar from Live Science

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Britons unconvinced on evolution

Posted by Billbar from BBC News

More than half the British population does not accept the theory of evolution. Furthermore, more than 40% of those questioned believe that creationism or intelligent design should be taught in school science lessons.

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