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Fossil Crocodile is "Missing Link" - It has a mix of morphological traits common in prehistoric crocodiles and in the ones that exist today. The fossil of a land-bound reptile that could be a link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles. The 80-million-year-old predator, dubbed Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, is 5.5-foot-long (1.6-meter-long) and was a long-limbed and extremely agile animal that roamed arid terrain in what is now the Brazilian countryside, As a missing link to prehistoric crocodiles, it offers us an excellent opportunity to study the evolutionary transition of these animals. For more see National Geographic News (Feb. 2008).
Evolution's Greatest Mistakes - As miraculous as living things might seem at first glance, a closer look reveals that evolution's blind blunderings often fall well short of perfection. Claire Ainsworth and Michael Le Page peek under the hood of life to assess the parts and processes where things seem to have gone spectacularly wrong. New Scientist 195.2616 (August 11, 2007): p36 (4).
Study Maps Evolution's Tiny Steps - For the first time, scientists have drawn a detailed map of the evolutionary steps taken by a protein that links modern humans to life that swam in the oceans 450 million years ago. The study, published in the journal Science, provides further rebuttal to creationists by filling in the gaps that show how evolution occurred on a molecular level. Read more at The News & Observer or in the 8/17/2007 issue of the Journal Science vol.317, no.5840, pp.884-85
Twin fossil find adds twist to human evolution - unearthed in Kenya, they show that two ancestral human species seem to have lived cheek-by-jowl in the same area, much as gorillas and chimpanzees do today. Both skull fragments, discovered by Fred Spoor of University College London and his colleagues, were found near Kenya's Lake Turkana, adding to the impressive list of early human fossils unearthed here. One of the fossils, an upper jawbone from the species Homo habilis, is dated at 1.44 million years, younger than most fossils of this species. Read more in the 8/8/2007 issue of the journal Nature.
A new website from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology offers resources for to help defend Darwinism. Downloadable documents provide pointers on meeting with public officials, testifying at school board hearings, and related topics. Much of the advice is common sense, but some of it may be counterintuitive for scientists. (!/16/07)
The Bacterial Flagella Evolved not Designed. In an article published on-line 9/6/2006 in Nature Reviews Microbiology (or see short summary), Mark Pallen of the University of Birmingham and Nicholas Matzke of NCSE, review the evidence for the evolution of the bacterial flagellum. They handily dismiss the need for any great conceptual leaps in creating a model of flagellar evolution and speculate as to how an experimental program focused on this topic might look.
Growing evidence that evolution is not just real but is actually still happening to humans today. "From 1970 to 2000, the view was that although natural selection is very important, it is relatively rare, That view was driven largely because we did not have data to identify the signals of natural selection. In the last five years, there has been a tremendous growth in understanding how much selection there is. Everywhere we look, there appears to be very widespread signals of natural selection in many genes and many processes." wrote Dr. Jonathan Pritchard, a geneticist at the University of Chicago, in a recent article in PLoS-Biology. Our insight to evolution and natural selection has deepened as we have gained the ability to read the human genome.
Irreducible Complexity Refuted - By reconstructing ancient genes from long-extinct animals, scientists have for the first time demonstrated the step-by-step progression of how evolution created a new piece of molecular machinery by reusing and modifying existing parts. The findings offer a counterargument to doubters of evolution who question how a progression of small changes could produce the intricate mechanisms found in living cells. This experiment refutes the notion of "irreducible complexity".
