Month: January 2022

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Source: The Famous Fossils Scientists Got Incredibly Wrong

The first words were written in ink made from crushed berries.

Source: A Rare, Isolated Script Invented From Scratch Holds Clues to The Evolution of Writing

An artery meant to disappear before birth is now being found in numerous adults.

Source: What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution | Discover Magazine

One person’s problematic pest is another’s “Berlin lobster.”

Source: After the Crayfish Clones Invaded, “We Started Eating Them” – Mother Jones

Many people I know in the ID community are strongly interested in rethinking mutation, understanding it as a designed or regulated process.

Source: Plant Biologist: “Mutation Is Very Non-Random” | Evolution News

The ID gang complains of cancel/censorship, but they wouldn’t dare to check out or share with their readers the PE aspects of the eonic effect… Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such…

Source: This site won’t check out the solution to the PE enigma in the eonic model…//Punctuated Equilibrium and Lack of Transitions    – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Kenyan conservationist found oldest near-complete human skeleton in 1984, dating from 1.5m years ago

Source: Fossil hunter Richard Leakey who showed humans evolved in Africa dies at 77 | Fossils | The Guardian

If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

Source: A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar

New studies reveal the ancient, shared genetic “grammar” underpinning the diverse evolution of fish fins and tetrapod limbs.

Source: Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution | Quanta Magazine

Ongoing habitat loss and the spread of invasive species and non-native insect diseases are also taking their toll.

Source: Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse