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ps418 · 01-15-2003, 04:29 PM

Massimo Puggliuci has a new book:

Denying Evolution: Creation, Scientism, and the Nature of Science

New articles on No Answers in Genesis:

Young-Earth Creationist 'Dating' of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite

Woodmorappe's Billion-fold Distortion of 187Re Radioactive Decay

Woodmorappe Quotes Comrades Skobelin, Sharapov and Bugayov

A Point by Point Refutation of Jonathan Sarfati

Kent Hovind: Brainless in Seattle?

From the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences:

Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans

Nature:

Speciation along environmental gradients

Misc.

New, complete Plesiosaur skeleton from Mexico

A couple of your links needed a space between them
- Didymus

Coragyps · 01-15-2003, 07:25 PM

Good stuff, Patrick! One more, kind of on the border of cultural and biological evolution:
"Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture"
Carel P. van Schaik, et al. , Science 2003 January 3; 299: 102-105.

Abstract:

Quote:

Geographic variation in some aspects of chimpanzee behavior has been interpreted as evidence for culture. Here we document similar geographic variation in orangutan behaviors. Moreover, as expected under a cultural interpretation, we find a correlation between geographic distance and cultural difference, a correlation between the abundance of opportunities for social learning and the size of the local cultural repertoire, and no effect of habitat on the content of culture. Hence, great-ape cultures exist, and may have done so for at least 14 million years.

Among these cultural traits is that of the orangs in only one particular forest to make "a loud sputtering sound" as they bed down for the night. Perhaps a "good night, John Boy" in orangutanese?

01-15-2003, 04:29 PM	#1
ps418 Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 1,840	New Evo-Cre Stuff Massimo Puggliuci has a new book: Denying Evolution: Creation, Scientism, and the Nature of Science New articles on No Answers in Genesis: Young-Earth Creationist 'Dating' of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite Woodmorappe's Billion-fold Distortion of 187Re Radioactive Decay Woodmorappe Quotes Comrades Skobelin, Sharapov and Bugayov A Point by Point Refutation of Jonathan Sarfati Kent Hovind: Brainless in Seattle? From the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences: Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans Nature: Speciation along environmental gradients Misc. New, complete Plesiosaur skeleton from Mexico A couple of your links needed a space between them - Didymus

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