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livescience information on evolution

livescience information on monkeys

timeline of life on earth. shows the mindboggling timescale. note how early complexity took such different orders of time to arise. the details within protein synthesis and the like is what took the longest to work out, and evolution really sped up once

Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA: This sounds very interesting. I'd love to participate!

蝸牛會飛？這篇文章探討生活在大陸上的蝸牛如何繁衍到大海洋中的小島。

Any scientist hoping that the Dover verdict would keep the teaching of evolution out of controversy and courts for a little while has got to be disappointed with recent developments. The Dover verdict stated plainly that Intelligent design was not science, and didn't belong in a science class. Politicians in several states already seem intent on testing whether the ruling will apply more broadly than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, a public school district in El Tejon, California, has taken different approach in a high school course: teach ID, but don't call it science. Taking a cue from suggestions made in the wake of Dover, they called the course the "Philosophy of Design." Both the class and the lawsuit it spawned came to an end today, but it's worth examining in detail, both because I haven't found it summarized well elsewhere, and because it points to where the controversy over the teaching of evolution might be headed.