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"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law." - John Morley

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December 2007
- Nature's Back-Up Plan Keeps Pregnant Women Upright
  
  Associated Press | Dec 12, 07 8:03 CST
  
  (Newser) - Scientists have found slight differences in the lower back and hip joints of men and women—results of evolution—that help women keep their balance and avoid serious back pain while pregnant, the AP reports. “(Women) are experiencing a pretty impressive challenge. Evolution has tinkered ... to the point where they can deal with the challenge," a Harvard anthropology researcher said. More »
- Humans Evolving at Warp Speed
  
  Los Angeles Times | Dec 11, 07 3:59 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The pace of human evolution switched to the fast track when people began forming agrarian societies 10,000 years ago, researchers have discovered. Scientists had theorized that evolution would slow as challenges to survival waned, but the opposite appears to be the case with changes occurring surprisingly quickly, the Los Angeles Times reported. More »
- Altruism Linked to Gene
  
  BBC | Dec 9, 07 6:35 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Researchers have identified a gene that may influence altruism, reports the BBC. Test subjects who had the choice of keeping money or giving it away were 50% more likely to give it away if they had a more active version of the gene AVPR1a. The gene is linked to arginine vasopressin, a hormone involved in social bonding. More »
- Religion Remains Flashpoint With Huckabee
  
  Associated Press | Dec 5, 07 10:40 CST
  
  (Newser) - A month before the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee reacted with frustration when asked if creationism should be taught in public schools, the AP reports. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has said he does not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, said his personal views on religion were irrelevant—though they remain a hot topic. More »
November 2007
- Creation Geologists Rock World
  
  New York Times | Nov 25, 07 7:10 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Today's creationist geologists are not who the secular may think. Numerous and thriving, many hold advanced degrees from top universities, and are making evangelicals more open to scientific evidence. And they are experts for the nearly half of Americans who believe God created the Earth in the last 10,000 years, the New York Times reports. More »
- Communicating Chimp Signs Off
  
  Seattle Times | Nov 2, 07 5:07 CDT
  
  (Newser) - Washoe, the first non-human to learn a human language, is being remembered as a linguistic pioneer and a "polite, cheerful person," even though she was a chimp. Washoe, who died this week at 42, could use around 250 different American Sign Language signs in conversation, the Seattle Times reports, and continued to communicate her feelings until her death. More »
September 2007
- 'Hobbits' Were, Indeed, a Different Kind of Human
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 21, 07 1:30 CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new study of three wrist bones from an 18,000-year-old fossil shows that the so-called hobbits of Indonesia were, indeed, a separate human species. When the bones were discovered in 2003, scientists trumpeted the find as evidence of a smaller species, Homo floresiensis. But skeptics argued that the hobbit, at 3 feet tall with a brain the size of a grapefruit, was in fact a human afflicted by microcephaly, a brain-shrinking disorder. More »
August 2007
- Lucy Debuts in Houston
  
  Houston Chronicle | Aug 29, 07 5:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Lucy kicks off her public debut at the Houston Museum of Natural Science tomorrow amid controversy that the world's favorite human ancestor should never have left her home in Ethiopia. The public wants the chance to the 3.2 million-year-old remains, but scientists say Lucy's too fragile to travel. More »
- Kenyan Fossil Rattles Human Family Tree
  
  National Geographic | Aug 9, 07 8:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two of our ancestors apparently lived alongside each other in Africa rather than evolving from one to the next on the path to Homo sapiens , as scientists once believed. National Geographic reports that a Homo habilis skull dug up in Kenya is surprisingly young, making its 1.4 million-year-old owner a neighbor to Homo erectus rather than an evolutionary forerunner. More »
- Muslim Creationists Damn Darwin
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Aug 2, 07 6:31 CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Muslim group in Turkey is widely disseminating a 768-page tome that slams evolution and promotes Islam-inflected creationism, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Council of Europe has issued warnings—particularly to schools—against the "Atlas of Creation," which has been published in 80 countries and 59 languages. More »
July 2007
- Butterfly Evolves in Blink of Eye
  
  BBC | Jul 13, 07 8:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - One of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed has been witnessed by scientists studying butterflies in the South Pacific, the BBC reports. Blue Moon butterflies managed to fight off a deadly parasitic bacteria by developing suppressor genes to fight the bacteria in just six years. Hard-hit males rebounded from 1% of the population to 40% in that time. More »
June 2007
- Big Bird Dazzles Paleontologists
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 14, 07 2:27 CDT
  
  (Newser) - The largest birdlike creature on record stood over 16 feet tall, weighed a ton and a half, and had sharp claws but no teeth. The Chinese paleontologist who unearthed the creature's thigh bone wasn't sure what it was, he tells the San Francisco Chronicle, but as he listed the possibilities for a colleague he realized: "We have a gigantic chicken!" More »
May 2007
- Creationists Open History Museum
  
  New York Times | May 24, 07 5:40 CDT
  
  (Newser) - A $27 million museum opening in Kentucky next week promises a different kind of take on natural history: a biblical one. At the Creation Museum, the Earth is 6,000 years old, evolution is a yarn, and dinosaurs were booked on Noah's Ark. More »
May 1925
- Light v s. Darkness
  
  Time | May 25, 25
  
  In the remote fastnesses of Tennessee, where a high-school professor is arraigned under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George...
March 1923
- Dogma, Science
  
  Time | Mar 17, 23
  
  Seven hundred years ago Thomas Aquinas built a system of dogma on the doctrine that Christianity is truth, that all philosophy which is true is Christian, and that all Christianity which is not true philosophy is not Christianity at all.

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Background

human evolution
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

human evolution theory of the origins of the human species, Homo sapiens. Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings of paleontology , anthropology , and genetics , and involves the process of natural selection (see Darwinism ). Although gaps in the fossil ...

Laetoli footprints
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Several trails of bipedal footprints, presumed to be those of Australopithecus afarensis , preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli in northern Tanzania and dated to approximately 3.5 million years ago. They were discovered in 1978 by a team led by the Leakey family. The footprints ...

creationism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

creationism or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis , a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism (see fundamentalism ). Advocates of creationism have campaigned to have it taught in U.S. public schools along ...

Scopes trial
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Scopes trial Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. A statute was passed (Mar., 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human creation. John T. Scopes, a ...

Charles (Robert) Darwin
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

(born Feb. 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng.—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) British naturalist. The grandson of Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and biology at Cambridge. He was recommended as a naturalist on HMS Beagle , which was ...

Darwinian evolution
A Dictionary of Psychology

Darwinian evolution n. The theory according to which species evolve by natural selection. See also neo-Darwinism. Compare Lamarckism, Lysenkoism, neo-Lamarckism, non-Darwinian evolution.[Named after the ...

evolution
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

evolution concept that embodies the belief that existing animals and plants developed by a process of gradual, continuous change from previously existing forms. This theory, also known as descent with modification, constitutes organic evolution. Inorganic evolution, on the other hand, is ...

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

This site contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of his private papers and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; [Click to enlarge] also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more.Almost all is online only...

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