Lobe-Finned Fish Supplies Surprises - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... survey of these storied fishes in the journal Current Biology.1 They analyzed DNA sequences from 71 adult coelacanth fish. The team analyzed the most variable region of the mitochondrial chromosome, the "d-loop." After 400...

Flying Machine - Content
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... da Vinci dreamed up a flying machine over 500 years ago, but it wasn't until 1903 that the famous Wright brothers designed and successfully flew the first powered heavier-than-air aircraft. Since their inspiration came from studying the...

Some Birds Were Created to Boogie - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal. Current Biology. In Press, posted on cell.com/current-biology April 30, 2009. Schachner, A. et al. 2009. Spontaneous Motor Entraintment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species....

Species -- A Most Elusive Subject - Article
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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - ... can one say Sandoval's work is close to observing "biology's biggest leap" — speciation? Harvard's Steven Palumbi (a staunch anti-creationist) wrote, "The formation of species has long represented one of the...

The Confusing Origin of Locust Swarms - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... distribution.”2 In a recent study published in Current Biology, researchers have attempted to explain the origins of this behavior. Andy Reynolds of Rothamsted Research and his colleagues propose that locusts evolved their clumping and...

New Frontiers in Animal Classification - Article
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Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Ph.D. - ... the first of several key research questions in origins biology. One of the major unanswered questions in this field is the nature and meaning of taxonomy, the branch of science that classifies creatures by kingdom, phylum, and on down to...

Korean Creation And Discontinuity Conference At Cedarville University - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... Ohio, was host to the 2001 Discontinuity: Understanding Biology in the Light of Creation conference, August 15 to 17. The purpose of this conference was to bring together scholars of creation biology so that the principle of discontinuity...

The Steady Gaze of Flies: An Engineering Marvel - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... research, published in the journal Public Library of Science Biology,2 describes how visual data is coordinated and processed in the fly brain to make quick and accurate head-leveling adjustments. “Keeping the head level and gaze steady is a...

Biology Textbooks Worldwide Development and the Creation/Evolution Controversy - Article
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Steve Deckard, Ed.D. - Introduction Secondary school biology textbooks are the central tool in the instructional process of teaching biological science in the American school systems. For example,...

Mechanisms of Adaptation in Biology: Genetic Diversity - Article
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Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. - ... features that regulate many aspects of gene expression.3 Biology researchers at ICR are currently reviewing creationist and secular literature on non-coding DNA to determine new venues of research into the field of genetic diversity and the...