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• In Brief: To anyone who does not believe we are descended ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Theories Of Evolution

  To anyone who does not believe we are descended from apes, we present to you this latest bit of intelligent-ape news: Baboons are eating progesterone-packed plums as a method of contraception. See,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Evolutionist Quote of the Day [Afarensis]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:34 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  Over the weekend I ordered a copy of the 2nd edition of Ankel-Simons' An Introduction to Primate Anatomy. At this point I have only glanced through it, but two things stand out. First the preface is ended with a wonderful line drawing of an Aye-Aye - which shows impeccably good taste. Second, this quote by Thomas Huxley: Read the rest of this

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• Cephalopod development and evolution [Pharyngula]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  that what's important in the evolution of complex organisms anyway is the process of multicellular assembly, and it's the rules of construction that we have to determine to identify pathways of change. Now a recent paper by Shigeno et al. traces the development of Nautilus and works out how the body plan is established, and the evolutionary

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• Picking Up the Dog [The Loom]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:55 am

  Tags: Evolution

  before--his work on language evolution turns up in my book Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, and there's a bit on his research on cancer evolution in an article I wrote last year for in Scientific American. But I was very curious to talk to Nowak and figure out how all these topics fit inside the head of one scientist. If you want to read more

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• Neandertals & humans gettin' along [Gene Expression]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:07 am

  Tags: Evolution

  Were Neanderthals our enemies or lovers?: One difficulty in working out how these ancient humans rubbed along is that there is a lack of clear evidence of close encounters. That changed two years ago when a paper was published by Prof Paul Mellars, of Cambridge University, and his student Brad Gravina, suggesting the two kinds of human lived

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• Is Sean Carroll Wrong? [evolgen]

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Molecular Evolution

  Coyne JA. 2007 The locus of evolution: evo devo and the genetics of adaptation. Evolution 61:995-1016 doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00105.x Prud'homme B, Gompel N, and Carroll SB. 2007. Emerging principles of regulatory evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:8605-8612 doi:10.1073/pnas.0700488104 Wang D, Sung H-M, Wang T-Y, Huang C-J, Yang P, et

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• More Instruments in Guitar Hero's Future

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Activision, Games, Edinburgh International Festival, Guitar Controller, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero Franchise, Harmonix, Janco, Mtv, Product Evolution

  to follow a natural product evolution by adding additional music peripherals in calendar year 08,” said the firm, Janco. “Importantly, the Guitar Hero franchise that is developed internally and owned, offers a meaningful operating margin expansion potential versus Rock Band, which is purely a distribution deal for Electronic

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• When Behe met a pregraduate student... [Respectful Insolence]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  of "fatal flaws" in evolutionary theory that he think he's identified, did quite a bit of tilting at HIV in his book. Watch his blathering taken down by a pre-graduate student named Abbie. It's so good it's been republished at Panda's Thumb. Enjoy. Read the comments on this

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• Fun With Fast Food!

  Published: August 4, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Bigger Burger, Burger, Evolution Of Big Mac

  is one guy's vision of the evolution of the McDonald's Big Mac and just how BIG it will become. With obesity rates rising and the recent prediction that 75 percent of Americans are going to be overweight by 2015, these images seem surprisingly fitting. The biggest of all the burgers will probably end up costing only about $6.00 (with a large

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• More hominid evolution [Gene Expression]

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:02 am

  Tags: Evolution

  role of Asian ancestors in evolution," but the article is pretty garbled and I don't really trust it to be accurate about what it's representing, so best to wait for the PNAS paper. In any case, I do think it is important to be cautious about translating morphological continuity as clear and present evidence of genetic continuity in any

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• So Easy A Caveman Could Do Her: 'New York Times' Unlocks Evolutionary Secret Behind Lindsay Lohan

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Evolution, Lindsay Lohan, So Easy Caveman Could Do Her

  Muffin top: It's what separates us from the animals, according to a (not really) groundbreaking story in this morning's New York Times.Indeed, evolutionary biologists have proposed that our relative... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• The inimitable Mr Spencer [Evolving Thoughts]

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:33 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  boy of progressives and anti-evolutionists alike. Ever since Richard Hofstadter fingered him as the source of rough individualism and eugenics in his Social Darwinism in American Thought in 1943, Spencer has been the evil demon of philosophy, political thought, and evolution. But a recent article in The New Yorker occasioned by a new book Herbert

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• Trip to the Creation Museum

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:46 am

  Tags: Creation Evolution, Christian Living Theology, Catastrophe, Creation Museum, Evolutionists, Planetarium, Universal Studios

  than the normal rate. Even evolutionists should find the museum interesting. It’s so spectacularly done that you can visit and examine the other side of the debate without being bored out of your mind. I’ve even read of some people getting to “debate” with the staff. So what are you waiting for?

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• Why can't we get along like habiline and erectine? [Gene Expression]

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  and I don't know how revolutionary it is to bury it again for the thousandth time. All that being said, it is a little irritating to see this bit of pop-evolutionary thinking crop up near the end of the piece: Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this

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• New Hominid Fossils Reported [EvolutionBlog]

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Evolution

  as if it is a scientific revolution: Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens. Scientists who dated and analyzed the specimens -- a 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis and a 1.55 million-year-old Homo erectus -- said their

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