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Posted April 16, 2008:

• Unearthing Clues Of Catastrophic Earthquakes
• Slowly-Developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-Witted

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Clues To Ancestral Origin Of Placenta Emerge In Genetics Study

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Technique Traces Origins Of Disease Genes In Mixed Human Populations
• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old
• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-Year-Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Is Globalization as Old as the Earth?
• Natural Selection Protected Some East Asian Populations From Alcoholism, Study Suggests

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Scientists Reshape Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree Gaining New Insights Into Human Ancestry

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered
• Menopause Is An Adaptation To Minimize Reproductive Competition Between Females In A Family, Research Suggests

Posted March 28, 2008:

• How Were The Egyptian Pyramids Built?

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests
• Rethinking Early Evolution: Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex And Included Sexual Reproduction
• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Floating A Big Idea: Ancient Use Of Rafts To Transport Goods Demonstrated
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Forecasting Tsunami Threats Through Layers Of Sand And Time

Posted March 16, 2008:

• Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time
• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-Bodied Humans

Posted March 4, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old
• Evidence Of Commerce Between Ancient Israel And China

Posted March 3, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution
• Innovative Archaeological Survey Reveals Unknown Aspects Of China's Past

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Chimps May Have A 'Language-Ready' Brain

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Centuries-Old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved

Posted February 25, 2008:

• Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 17, 2008:

• There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
• No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted February 14, 2008:

• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors
• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism

Posted February 13, 2008:

• Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 7, 2008:

• Mummy Lice Found In Peru May Give New Clues About Human Migration

Posted February 6, 2008:

• Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern

Posted February 5, 2008:

• Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England

Posted February 4, 2008:

• Black Death Selective In Its Wrath: Plague Targeted The Weak, Frail

Posted February 1, 2008:

• Globetrotting Black Rat Genes Reveal Spread Of Humans And Diseases

Posted January 31, 2008:

• Gene Variants May Help To Distribute The Work Of Evolution Between Men And Women

Posted January 30, 2008:

• Blue-Eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor

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