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The current pandemic in the US is a puzzle in the sphere of vaccination. Tens of millions refuse vaccination in what is seen as irrationalism. So it is, but consider the issue of evolution. The the…

Source: Pandemic, science, vaccination, Darwinism and the right: are scientists hopeless idiots or what? From suspicion of Darwinism to suspicions of scientists to suspicions of vaccines… – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Similar to proteins, RNA also folds into complicated 3D structures. The difference is that we comparatively know so little about these molecules.

Source: Deep Learning Is Tackling Another Core Biology Mystery: RNA Structure

This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.

Source: Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis” | Evolution News

A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old Proto-Indo-European language.

Source: Exploring the past: Computational models shed new light on the evolution of prehistoric languages — ScienceDaily

This article is typical of the way ‘evolution’ is taken as implying natural selection, but in fact the article never mentions the issue.

Progress!

Source: More Americans Are Finally Coming Around to Accepting The Science of Evolution

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Source: What evolutionary advantage comes from women having considerably less body hair than men? | Evolution | The Guardian

New research from the University of Tübingen demonstrates that nut-cracking can emerge in Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus) orangutans through individual learning and certain types of non-copying social learning.

Source: Orangutans Observed Using Hammer Tools to Crack Nuts | Biology | Sci-News.com

The bowfin (Amia calva), a species of ray-finned fish native to North America, is an evolutionary enigma because it embodies a unique combination of ancestral and advanced fish features.

Source: Bowfin Genome Sheds New Light on Evolution of Ray-Finned Fishes | Genetics | Sci-News.com

So there’s this absented-minded philosopher of science walking down the street, head in the clouds, not looking where he’s going.

Source: Meyer: “Can Natural Selection Explain the Origin of Life?” | Evolution News

Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales.

Source: Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale” | Evolution News