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Denyse O'Leary
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October 9, 2021
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Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Can the fallout from mass extinctions enable prediction of patterns in evolution?

Denyse O'Leary
October 9, 2021
Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
The description of the research makes clear that evolution is seen as an intelligent agent, like a coach deploying players. "Think of this as the biosphere's version of choosing starters and benchwarmers based on height and weight more than skill after losing a big match. There may well be a logic to this game plan in the arc of evolution." But can evolution be both mindless and a strategic coach? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 16, 2021
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extinction, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne says they’ll never clone a herd of mammoths

Denyse O'Leary
September 16, 2021
extinction, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Coyne: What they’d get would be a genetic chimera, an almost entirely Asian elephant but one that is hairier, chunkier, and more tolerant of cold. That is NOT a woolly mammoth, nor would it behave like a woolly mammoth, for they’re not inserting behavior genes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 26, 2021
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Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Honeybees, astonishingly, are not going extinct

Denyse O'Leary
March 26, 2021
Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
Science writer Hank Campbell vs. the apocalypse industry: Instead of dying out, there are now 10 honeybees for every human on the planet - more than 25 years ago. And that is just in one species. There are over 25,000 species of bees, we just don't try to count them all because the others are not part of a billion dollar industry, like sending honeybees around in trucks to pollinate almond farms. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 10, 2021
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extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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A psychologist weighs in on the Neanderthal extinction

Denyse O'Leary
March 10, 2021
extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Of course, it's all very interesting. That is why we listen. But a dozen different theories are called "science" only out of courtesy. And it’s not clear that Coolidge and Overmann’s thirteenth theory (if that’s the count) is any improvement. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 26, 2021
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extinction, Intelligent Design
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Asteroid hit dino extinction theory strengthened by asteroid dust found in crater

Denyse O'Leary
February 26, 2021
extinction, Intelligent Design
The asteroid theory replaced any number of folk Darwinian theories about why the dinosaurs died out. You know the sort of thing: They were too big; they were too stupid to look after their eggs; mammals ate their eggs… Etc. Many non-dinos went extinct too. Small mammals may have found it easier to hide. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 15, 2021
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extinction, Intelligent Design
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A comet, not an asteroid, killed the dinosaurs, say astrophysicists

Denyse O'Leary
February 15, 2021
extinction, Intelligent Design
At Smithsonian Mag: Siraj and co-author Avi Loeb concluded from their analysis that Jupiter's gravitational field was strong enough to bump many such long-period comets from the Oort cloud off course, bringing them very close to the Sun. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
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extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Tens of thousands of rock paintings from 12,500 ya discovered in Colombia

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
From The Guardian: Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2020
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Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Asked at The Conversation: Could dinosaurs re-evolve?

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2020
Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design
We are told no. But just a minute. According to the story, some dinos evolved into birds. If so, massive changes ARE possible. It’s not clear why changed circumstances could not cause some of those changes to be reversed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 22, 2020
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extinction, Intelligent Design
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How is that project of reintroducing lost species coming?

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2020
extinction, Intelligent Design
The interesting part will be to see whether—if both the animals and the environment have changed—reintroduction or recreation from advanced genomic techniques produces a viable independent species or a species that humans must indefinitely maintain. Read More ›