Science academy stresses evolution's importance
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The National Academy of Sciences on Thursday issued a spirited defense of evolution as the bedrock principle of modern biology, arguing that it, not creationism, must be taught in public school science classes.
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Researchers have assembled the entire genome of a living organism -- a bacterium -- in what they hope is an important step to creating artificial life.
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Not known whether God will attend The pope is set to host a seminar with his senior clergymen to discuss the Catholic Church's position on evolution. The move follows months of mixed signals from the Church with supporters of Darwin's theory at odds with those giving more credence to Intelligent Design, and other more creationist views.â¦
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There are growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for an upgrade to Darwin, although they differ about what form this might take.
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article
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Darwin's "single-origin" theory gets a boost when scientists unlock the DNA of a Neanderthal skeleton.
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Multiple genes and not just the sex chromosomes are important in sexual orientation, scientists suggest.
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Florida's public school science standards for the first time will use the word "evolution," although the biological concept already was being taught under code words such as "change over time."
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A top scientist in the storied, sometimes controversial field explains how a population of creatures can be viewed as a high-level organism unto itself rather than a collection of disparate individuals.
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During the first GOP presidential debate last month in California, three Republican candidates raised eyebrows by indicating they did not subscribe to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, a widely accepted scientific concept about the origins of life.
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To proponents of intelligent design, saying that evolution alone accounts for the wonders of biology is like proposing that sandstorms created the pyramids of Egypt.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing to take up the issue of evolution and what to teach -- or not teach -- public school students about the origins of life.
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The first concerted effort to understand all the inner workings of the DNA molecule is overturning a host of long-held assumptions about the nature of genes and their role in human health and evolution, scientists reported yesterday.
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Climate change, renewable energy and space exploration will be high on the agenda when scientists from around the world gather for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week.
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Evo-devo researchers are finding that development appears to have been one of the major forces shaping the history of life on earth.
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A federal trial began today in Atlanta over evolution disclaimers in Cobb County schools. A group of parents backed by the ACLU argue that the disclaimers in science biology textbooks are a government endorsement of religion.
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Modern biology focuses most of its attention on how things are built and created: how a cell reads the blueprints encoded in DNA and how it takes that information to manufacture proteins in molecular factories.