Joe Thornton is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oregon who studies how molecules evolve over hundreds of millions of years. His most recent study suggests that it is difficult for natural selection to drive a molecule back to its old form.

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Asked if the legislature would be open to academic freedom legislation, Rubio told the Witness, "I think so. Sure. Well, I think the Florida House would. I can't speak for the Senate."

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A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists' understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers report.

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The Constant: Un-Answered Questions. The Variable: X = The Unknown

From: Wired issue 15.02 "What we don't know" 1.) What's at Earth's Core?

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RIGHT from the start of modern evolutionary science, why humans are hairless has been controversial.

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We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here are the results.

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There may be no god but theory of evolution is absurd.

"The environment presents challenges to living species, to which the later may respond by adaptive genetic changes. " -Theodosius Dobzhansky

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It's a two-fer: creationists angry at science complain over the school band's t-shirt design, and the school can't tell the difference between science and religion."I made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after several concerned parents brought the shir …

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Intricate cellular components are often cited as evidence of intelligent design. They couldn't have evolved, I.D. proponents say, because they can't be broken down into smaller, simpler functional parts.

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This won't be appreciated by the "I want blood" folks on either side... because the theme is that there aren't two sides...

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A new study shows that the importance that men, rather than women, place on beauty when choosing a mate is actually a form of natural selection. One result: women keep getting prettier, while men are as hairy and pudgy as they've ever been.

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The Creation/Evolution Journal was first published in 1980. In 1997, it became a part of Reports of the National Center for Science Education.

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ExpeIIed redux: Liars for Jesus At It Again?

Unsatisfied with the tepid reception which the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was greeted, creationists are poised to try again, and-- unsurprisingly-- this go around is set to recapitulate some of the same arguments and using the same tactics as the last effort.

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Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the process responsible for the evolution of adaptive features.

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Snowball Earth is a creative idea that, like evolution by natural selection, the Big Bang and continental drift before it, provides an explanation for a set of disparate and unusual observations.

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People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak.

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An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago. More Articles

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...flow systems – from animal locomotion to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time to balance and minimize imperfections. Flows evolve to reduce friction or other forms of resistance, so that they flow more easily with time.

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if we are just "all animals, descendants of a vast lineage of replicators sprung from primordial pond scum," as stated in a Scientific American article on social Darwinism in 1995—then what one bag of biological chemicals does to another bag of biological chemicals is ethic …

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it looks quite likely that at least some alien life out there might not be so "alien" after all [...] the combined actions of thermodynamics and subsequent natural selection suggest that the genetic code we observe on the Earth today may have significant features in common with l …

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Scientists at Penn State and the National Institute of Genetics in Japan have demonstrated that several statistical methods commonly used by biologists to detect natural selection at the molecular level tend to produce incorrect results.

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The history of venoms is a wonderful example of an evolutionary process.

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The Texas anti-Darwin stalwarts ...might want to beware of what they wish for.

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Texas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world's largest known colony of clonal amoebas. More Articles

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Nature is reputed to be red in tooth and claw, but many arms races across the animal kingdom are characterized by restraint rather than carnage.

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