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Book
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
February 1, 2012 W. W. Norton
see also Amazon
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Volcanoes may give a 100-year warning
February 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.16
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Evolution: Why animals get bigger over time
February 2, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.8
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Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years
February 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.18
An exceptionally preserved fossil has allowed biologists to reconstruct the sound of an extinct bush cricket. So what did it sound like?
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Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed
February 7, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.7
a new genome of the extinct Denisovan hominin is so complete that it contains fewer errors than genomes generated using samples from living people
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Most fish in the sea evolved on land
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.9
Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species.
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Lost treasures: The Maxberg Archaeopteryx
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.40-41
One of the rarest Archaeopteryx fossils disappeared after its irascible owner died. Was it stolen, is it buried with him, or something else?
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Patch of seagrass is oldest organism on Earth
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.18
a 15 kilometre-long swatche of seagrass off the coast of Spain is at least 80,000 years old, making it the oldest living organism that we know of on Earth
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Lost treasures: The Loch Ness monster that got away
February 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.44
In the 1600s, the specimen of a curious long-necked seal emerged. It could explain tall stories of sea serpents -- if only it hadn't been mislaid.
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Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time
February 9, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.208-211
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Lost treasures: Peking Man's bones
February 10, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.45
a crate containing some the world's most important hominin fossils vanished amid war in 1941 -- along with secrets about the origins of language
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Time to give SETI a chance
February 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.28-29
Earth 2.0 is in our sights. Checking it for signs of life will be the next big issue.
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Human evolution: Cultural roots
February 15, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.290-292
a South African archaeologist digs into his own past to seek connections between climate change and human development
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Russian hot springs point to rocky origins for life
February 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.6-7
New findings challenge the widespread view that it all kicked off in the oceans. Life may have begun on land instead -- just as Darwin thought.
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NASA scales back hunt for life on Mars
February 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.5
the space agency has pulled out of joint missions with its European counterpart to search for complex carbon-based molecules on the Red Planet
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Prions point to a new style of evolution
February 16, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.14
a form of evolution that involves neither genetic nor epigenetic changes to the DNA has been seen in yeast
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Evolution: Contemplating the First Plantae
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, p.809-810
What characterized the first photosynthetic eukaryotes?
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Archaeology: Uncovering Civilization's Roots
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, p.790-793
What sparked the first cities? Digs in Kuwait and Syria are reshaping how archaeologists see the first stirrings of urban life.
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A Tiny Window Opens Into Lake Vostok, While a Vast Continent Awaits
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, n.788-789
on 8 February, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute announced that a team of its engineers and scientists had drilled through nearly 4 kilometers of Antarctic ice to Lake Vostok
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Cracking a Very Cold Case: the Killing of Ötzi the Iceman
December 1, 2011 Discover Magazine
a new study of some old pictures reveal what he ate, and perhaps how he died
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Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?
February 4, 2012 Wall Street Journal
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The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.
February 8, 2012 Wired
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Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth
February 11, 2012 Guardian (UK)
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Neanderthals Used Red Ochre Pigment 250,000 Years Ago
February 11, 2012 Popular Archaeology
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Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
February 15, 2012 physorg.com (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
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Archaeologists discover Jordan’s earliest buildings
February 18, 2012 University of Cambridge
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Waiting for evolution in Pakistan’s classrooms
February 20, 2012 Tribune (Pakistan)
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Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice
February 21, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.454
fruits hoarded by ancient ground squirrels give new life to prehistoric plants
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Fossil of ancient horse found in China
February 21, 2012 United Press International
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Strange skies: Invisible beings that live far above
February 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2853, p.40
Few creatures soar as high as the invisible denizens of Earth's skies. It is even possible that life on Earth began up there in the stratosphere.
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Light's speed limit is safe for now
February 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2853, p.30-31
nearly six months on from the faster-than-light neutrino sensation we are still no nearer to understanding what is going on
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Underground oasis found below Earth's driest desert
February 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2853, p.4
a thriving community of microbes flourishes 2 metres below the surface of Chile's parched Atacama desert -- the news bodes well for the chances of Mars life
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Computer modelling: Brain in a box
February 22, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.456-458
Henry Markram wants €1 billion to model the entire human brain. Sceptics don't think he should get it.
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Santorum Supported Federal Role in Evolution Debate, Compared Belief in Darwinism to Nazism
February 23, 2012 Breitbart
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Critics: 'Academic freedom' bill backs creationism
February 24, 2012 New England Cable News (Associated Press)
sponsor of a so-called "academic freedom" bill in the Oklahoma Legislature said he is "baffled" by critics who say it's an effort to teach creationism and intelligent design in public schools
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Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
February 24, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6071, p.959-962
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Uniting Church and Science for Conservation
February 24, 2012 Science, v.335, p.915-917
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News to Note
February 25, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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LETTER: Science priests can be wrong in creation debate
February 25, 2012 Birmingham News (Alabama)
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Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): A new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology
January 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.1, p.71-74
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Middleweight Black Holes: Clues to the Universe's Evolution
January 12, 2012 Scientific American
tipping the scales at less than about a million suns in mass, middleweight black holes may hold clues to how their much larger siblings, and galaxies, first formed
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Rock of Ages
February 1, 2012 National Geographic
millions of years in the making, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument remains a little-known wonder
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How to Build a Dog
February 1, 2012 National Geographic
scientists have found the secret recipe behind the spectacular variety of dog shapes and sizes, and it could help unravel the complexity of human genetic disease
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Comparative quality and fidelity of deep-sea and land-based nannofossil records
February 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.2, p.155-158
the observable fossil record is strongly shaped by sampling bias
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When 14 Billion Years Just Isn't Enough Time
February 20, 2012 Scientific American
Some say its glory days are long gone, but the universe has life in it yet. Brand-new types of celestial phenomena will unfold over the coming billions and trillions of years.
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Timing glitches dog neutrino claim
February 27, 2012 Nature, v.483, p.17
team admits to possible errors in faster-than-light finding
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Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent
February 29, 2012 Scientific American
the American West once harbored multiple communities of dinosaurs simultaneously -- a revelation that has scientists scrambling to understand how the land could have supported so many behemoths
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Extinguishing a Permian World
March 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.3, p.287-288
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Burgess shale−type biotas were not entirely burrowed away
March 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.3, p.283-286
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The origin of intracellular structures in Ediacaran metazoan embryos
March 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.3, p.223-226