Creationism v. evolution in schools has been for many years a battle in the nation’s culture war, and these days it’s no different.
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Evolution battle flares in states
February 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
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No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
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Giant Frog Jumps Continents
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or `the frog from Hell’ has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the 70 million year-old fossil frog, of a kind once thought unique to South America, lends weight to a new theory that Madagascar, […]
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