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Moderator for science mag article on how DNA studies shake tree of life bans discussion of “whether evolution is true.”
Early paleontologists underestimated the strangeness of the Cambrian creatures
Ganymede: First complete geologic map of an icy, outer-planet moon
Fri Nite Frite: The Raven (is smarter than you)
World’s shortest abstract
World science journalists’ conference panelists in a snit over “science denial”
Developing embryo’s “rosette” new to science
Romantic love? Taking out the trash on evolutionary psychology
This beats our jelly frites: Huge, previously unknown jellyfish washes ashore
If you are a young scientist, how would you advocate for science?
Early Darwinian Ronald Fisher’s p-value measure is coming under serious scrutiny
Columbia mathematician Peter Woit says the unspeakable word
Have fun with agnostic mathematician David Berlinski, deflating scientism
What if Lincoln and Darwin HAD met?
Over at Evolution News & Views, John West notes Darwin Day’s forgotten figure. No, not Alfred Russel Wallace, but U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, born the same day in 1809. In sociologist Steve Fuller’s imagination, they do meet (a snatch of transcript). Here’s the audio. More. Follow UD News at Twitter!