Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s left, and they tell a story of an apex predator that vanished.
Do we need a new theory of evolution? | Evolution | The Guardian
The long read: A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
Source: Do we need a new theory of evolution? | Evolution | The Guardian
Antarctic bacteria reveal an evolutionary limit to dealing with heat | New Scientist
Some bacteria living in the Southern Ocean can only adapt to temperatures about 2°C above what they usually live in, and other organisms could face similar limits adapting to higher temperatures
Source: Antarctic bacteria reveal an evolutionary limit to dealing with heat | New Scientist
Evolution is not a field for god debates…
Warning, this painting is rank paganism. The obsession (on both sides) to use the evolution question to debate the issue of god is completely futile and at the same time unstoppable. At the ID site…
Source: Evolution is not a field for god debates… – 1848+: The End(s) of History
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so
Life on Earth has dramatically changed the chemistry of the planet. Astronomers will measure light that bounces off distant planets to look for similar clues that they host life.
Do we need a new theory of evolution?
The long read: A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
Source: Do we need a new theory of evolution? | Evolution | The Guardian
New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up The Branches of The Evolutionary Tree
This is only the beginning.
Source: New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up The Branches of The Evolutionary Tree
There are more galaxies than even Carl Sagan imagined
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists’ and observers’ estimates are too low.
Source: There are more galaxies than even Carl Sagan imagined – Big Think
art/music and the eonic effect…//‘The War on Music’ Review: Songs Without Listeners – WSJ – 1848+: The End(s) of History
The question is complex and we have addressed it here many times: one part of the answer relates to the dynamic of the eonic effect and the way that ‘modern’/so-called ‘classical&…
the eonic effect: a glimpse of evolution?!…//On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason | Evolution News – 1848+: The End(s) of History
This is an excellent piece of critical/secular Darwiniana, and in the context today of beating Marxists over the head, a useful reminder that a secular humanist can see through Darwinism and surviv…
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