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Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. People are evolving more rapidly than in the distant past, with residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one another, researchers say.
Golf club manufacturers have long placed ads in printed golf magazines. Movie studios tend to run television spots before a weekend rather than after. Targeting got even more precise as advertising moved to the Internet.
Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.
Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation.
A male masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata), one of the tropical species included in the study, at a nesting hole in a snag. It diverged from its sister species the black-tailed Tityra about 4 million years ago [Image courtesy of Jason Weir]
A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia legislator for a memo that says the teaching of evolution should be banned because it is a myth propagated by an ancient Jewish sect.
Kansas has repealed public school science guidelines questioning the theory of evolution that brought the state international ridicule, but educators aren't sure how long it will be before the decision is overturned.
Flocks of the Christian faithful in the US will this Sunday hold special services celebrating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The idea is to stand up to creationism, which claims the biblical account of creation is literally true, and which is increasingly being promoted under the guise of "intelligent design". Proponents of ID say the universe is so complex it must have been created by some unnamed designer.
An influential Roman Catholic cardinal whose comments on evolution are closely followed condemned a court decision Wednesday that barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class.
In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
A suburban school board that put stickers in high school science books saying evolution is "a theory, not a fact" abandoned its legal battle to keep them Tuesday after four years.
Fish of two different species have been filmed helping each other to hunt. It is the first known instance of two unrelated species hunting cooperatively, except for humans.
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
What do you do when your only means of attracting members of the opposite sex also puts your life in jeopardy? For field crickets on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, shutting up seems to work.
Pope Benedict XVI will this week host a private seminar to firm-up the Catholic Church’s stance on Darwinian evolution.
Moderates who will control the state Board of Education next year say it's only a matter of time before they unravel the work of conservatives who had pushed anti-evolution standards back into Kansas schools.
In a state primary election, Kansas voters have ousted two radical conservative school board members who opposed teaching evolution in schools.
Conservative Republicans who pushed anti-evolution standards back into Kansas schools last year have lost control of the state Board of Education once again.
Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it — by evolving.
A federal appeals court on Thursday sent back a lower court's order for a suburban Atlanta school district to remove textbook stickers calling evolution "a theory, not a fact," citing a lack of evidence in the case.
Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development.
The state Board of Education on Wednesday rejected a state panel's proposal to change high school standards on evolution by calling on students to "critically analyze" the theory.
A proposed constitutional amendment would require Nevada teachers to instruct students that there are many questions about evolution — a method viewed by critics as an opening to teach intelligent design.
House lawmakers scuttled a bill that would have required public school students to be told that evolution is not empirically proven — the latest setback for critics of evolution.
Kennewick Man was laid to rest alongside a river more than 9,000 years ago, buried by other people, a leading forensic scientist said Thursday.
The proposed standards refer to Darwin's theory as a "big idea" that Florida students must grasp to be well-grounded in science.
In January of 2007, I wrote an article title Creationism Evolves European Offshoot, noting the growing prevalence of creationist activism in the UK.
Given the furor he feared it would unleash, it is not surprising that Charles Darwin sat on his "great idea," refusing to publish "The Origin of Species" until 1859, more than 20 years after he first devised the theory of evolution.
But, in the modern world, the consequences are sobering. Unintentional injury is the third-leading cause of death among American men, after heart disease and cancer, according to 2004 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It doesn't excuse him for checking out that buxom blonde, but now you know why he's doing it. He can't help it.
This seeded article appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing: 2005. I'd like to share it with you all.
For every great woman there have been 100 - even 1,000 - great men in the same field.
Ron Paul: "It's a theory -- the theory of evolution -- and I don't accept it." "I think it's a theological discussion..."
Scientist Carl Linnaeus never made it to Jukkasjarvi, far north of the Arctic Circle, during a 1732 research trip in Sweden's Lapland due to a lack of money.
The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies.
"What stimulated human evolution?"—he remembered the chimp food. "I realized what a ridiculously large difference cooking would make," Wrangham says.
Huckabee has good qualities, according to Ann, but that can't save him from being labelled the Republican Jimmy Carter.
There have been allot of articles on Religion (Tis' the Season...) and the nature of faith that have questioned the nature of "Atheism" and I have seen many misconceptions leading to some heated arguments.
It's interesting that debates like this took place even back in the early 19th century. The biblical creationists vs. the scientists. Courts in favor of science even in the 19th century... that gives me hope for us, yet!
When humans began to migrate out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, their skin color gradually changed to adapt to their new environments.
A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.
A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.
Continuing in the spirit of articles on critical thinking, as we approach the 11th anniversary of Carl Sagan's death:
Researchers have found evidence that evolution produced a stronger and more flexible lower spine for women.
Women evolved curvier spines than men to stop them wobbling under the weight of pregnancy, researchers say. Harvard University experts say without the extra bend, humans' upright-walking ancestors would not have been able to escape predators while pregnant.
Researchers have found evidence that evolution produced a stronger and more flexible lower spine for women.
Humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasingly different, a genetic study suggests. In the past 5,000 years, genetic change has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period, say scientists in the US.
Homo sapiens sapiens has spread across the globe and increased vastly in numbers over the past 50,000 years or so—from an estimated five million in 9000 B.C. to roughly 6.5 billion today.
I figured with so many people questioning whether or not evolution is in fact a valid scientific theory I thought I'd throw some other scientific theories out there for the creationists and intelligent design proponents to consider. For everyone's reference, a theory is:
I think that we should base our beliefs on what we can see or feel or detect by scientifically established procedures (such as telescopy).
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