Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be required in schools, 'creation science' is still taught in some schools. What are the implications for climate education?
Children gather around a fossil skull at a South African museum.
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As an intellectual history of the disciplines of paleontology and paleoanthropology, Kuljan’s book is especially adept at narrating the interwoven connections between science and power.
Angustoniscus amieuensis, a New Caledonian cockroach that lives in the moist forests of the island.
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Philippe Grandcolas, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités
The theory that New Caledonia was a piece of land that separated from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana was a seductive one. But then a cockroach rose up to challenge it.
Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records, and evidence suggests that amateurs collected really important fossils long before professionals arrived on the scene.
Epigenetics is consistent with the theory of evolution – in fact, Darwin predicted that tiny parcels might somehow provide a flow of information from experience to inheritance.
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced March 24 that he was pulling his proposed health care bill from consideration.
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The U.S. has been arguing about health care for decades. Critics have argued that insurance for all is a sign of weakness or even Communist. Here's a look at how the thinking has evolved -- or not.
People have camped in the long grass since colonisation. From this perspective, bans on the practice are a denial of Indigenous agency, culture and rights to country.
Photo: K. Pollard
In contrast to perceptions of other homeless people sleeping rough, Darwin's "long-grassers" are applying a long cultural tradition to deal with the situation in which they find themselves.
‘Dandy philosopher’, Sir Humphry Davy.
Thomas Phillips
Victorian attitudes influenced what scientists thought they were observing about sexual behaviors in the animal world. But modern techniques reveal the myth for what it is.
In Darwin the wet season usually arrives around Christmas Day.
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Humans have an innate interest and ability in naming biologically meaningful entities, or species. Taxonomy, then, vies for the title of world's “oldest profession”.
Research shows most Indigenous people feel judged, stereotyped and disregarded by white people.
AAP/Marianna Massey
Humans have invented many technologies to survive better – spears, pots, calculators, even language. With language, however, the raw material used to fashion the technology is the human body itself.
Playing ‘Spore’ is a good way to explore evolution.
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Scientists of all kinds turn to computer models to investigate questions they can't get at any other way. Here's how models work and why we can trust them.
Graduates of a 2015 Tertiary Entry Program, which paves the way into university courses, with lead author and CQUniversity’s Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Engagement, Bronwyn Fredericks (fourth from left) and Provost Hilary Winchester (far right).
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If we're serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
According to creationists, the eyes of the great horned owl cannot be expained by Darwinian evolution.
Rachlin Susan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
