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Evolution! version:Patrick Henry School of Science and Art

A collaborative animation in which I took 5 groups of people and simulated evolution with them in the course of an hour. From those groups I amassed about 46...
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More bad science in the literature : Pharyngula

More bad science in the literature : Pharyngula | Science News | Scoop.it

That sad article on gyres as an explanation for everything has had more fallout: not only has it been removed from Science Daily's site, not only has Case Western retracted the press release, but one of the editors at the journal Life has resigned his position over it.

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The Archaeology News Network: Researchers find that lasting evolutionary change takes about a million years

The Archaeology News Network: Researchers find that lasting evolutionary change takes about a million years | Science News | Scoop.it

A new study, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combined for the first time data from short periods such as 10-100 years with much longer evidence found in the fossil record over millions of years.

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Are Evolution And Belief Incompatible?

Are Evolution And Belief Incompatible? | Science News | Scoop.it

A few years ago, Sir David Attenborough seemed to think so: Attenborough recently changed his tune: I don't think an understanding and an acceptance of the 4 billion-year-long history of life is any way inconsistent with a belief in a supreme being. And I am not so confident as to say that I am an atheist.

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Color Is In The Eye Of The Beholder | Disinformation

Color Is In The Eye Of The Beholder | Disinformation | Science News | Scoop.it
We think of a physical object's being a certain color as a solid, immutable property (grass is green, lemons are yellow, et cetera). However, the way our brains see and process color is largely determined by the language we learned as an infant.
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