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New York Times (blog)

May 25, 1925 | Tennessee Teacher Is Indicted for Evolution Lessons
New York Times (blog)
By THE LEARNING NETWORK Watson Davis/Smithsonian InstitutionJohn T. Scopes, pictured in June 1925, volunteered to go on trial to challenge the constitutionality of a law outlawing the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools.



Wall Street Journal

Human Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be
Wall Street Journal
If you write about genetics and evolution, one of the commonest questions you are likely to be asked at public events is whether human evolution has stopped. It is a surprisingly hard question to answer. I'm tempted to give a flippant response, ...



The X-Men Join the Evolution
Huffington Post (blog)
It seems fitting that the X-Men, whose mutations have been described as the next step in human evolution, have evolved on this issue along with President Obama. It is fitting that they would use this chance to be heroes again.

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Yemeni evolution a regional concern
UPI.com
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 24 (UPI) -- What happens in Yemen has sweeping implications for global security, a British official said at a multilateral conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Delegates from more than three dozen countries traveled to Saudi ...

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Technology evolution drives opportunity, challenges for firms
Central Penn Business Journal
Despite the abundance of opportunity, small companies can be tested by keeping up with the constant evolution of technology in software and hardware. "The challenges for many (small companies) are the cost of the technology, especially around the first ...



Mediaite

New Polls Suggest President Obama's 'Evolution' Moving The Needle On Gay Marriage
Mediaite
by Tommy Christopher | 4:00 pm, May 24th, 2012 After being the hot topic for a week and change, President Obama's Biden-aided evolution on gay marriage finally ceded the foreground to The Battle of Bain. While polling in the wake of the President's ...
Evolution: It's been a long time comingpride source.com
Timing is importantDaily Comet
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The Atlantic Wire

Rapid Fire Evolution; Why Pesticides Are Killing the Bees
The Atlantic Wire
Discovered: Rapid fire evolution in a Connecticut pond, why pesticides are killing the bees, the best new species on the planet, and butterflies have gotten snobby. Watch years evolution happen in this pond. Due to a feedback loop created by dams in a ...

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How Natural Genetic Engineering Solves Problems in Protein Evolution
Huffington Post (blog)
A good way to see how natural genetic engineering facilitates the evolutionary process is to review what we have learned about protein evolution. Many of the links in this posting will be to articles from Scientific American, which should be easier for ...



Wired News

Antibiotic Overuse May Increase Superbug Evolution Rate
Wired News
By Brandon Keim By flooding our environment with antibiotics, people may alter a little-appreciated but profound aspect of bacterial evolution: the very pace at which it occurs. Bacteria may evolve more rapidly and more radically than just a few ...

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R & D Magazine

Scientists pinpoint radical change in evolution of the brain
R & D Magazine
In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago, nerve cells in the mouse visual cortex are densely packed in a small ...

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