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Posted December 20, 2006:

• History-hunting Geneticists Can Still Follow Familiar Trail

Posted December 18, 2006:

• New Male-specific Gene In Algae Unveils An Origin Of Male And Female

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Scientists Solve Riddle Of Mysterious Faces On South Pacific Artifacts

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted December 7, 2006:

• Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future

Posted December 5, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse: Tablet To God Maglus Invokes Destruction Of Cloak-pilferer

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 24, 2006:

• Genetic Variation: We're More Different Than We Thought

Posted November 20, 2006:

• Origins Of Life: New Approach Helps Expand Study Of Living Fossils

Posted November 17, 2006:

• Geologists Find New Origins Of Appalachian Mountains
• Unraveling Where Chimp And Human Brains Diverge

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 14, 2006:

• Biblical Latrine: Ancient Parasites Show That Cleanliness May Have Been Next To Sickliness

Posted November 12, 2006:

• Raiding For Women? Female Remains In Graveyards Reflect War In Pre-Hispanic New Mexico

Posted November 10, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 6, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted November 5, 2006:

• New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans

Posted November 3, 2006:

• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain

Posted October 31, 2006:

• Phoenix Rising: Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-year-old Retrovirus

Posted October 29, 2006:

• Social Amoebas' Family Tree Reveals Evolutionary Clues

Posted October 27, 2006:

• Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered In Syria

Posted October 26, 2006:

• New Genetic Analysis Forces Re-draw Of Insect Family Tree

Posted October 25, 2006:

• Viral Marker Of Human Migration Suspect

Posted October 23, 2006:

• New Dwarf Buffalo Discovered By Chance In The Philippines
• Discovery About Evolution Of Fungi Has Implications For Humans

Posted October 19, 2006:

• West Australian Fossil Find Rewrites Land Mammal Evolution

Posted October 14, 2006:

• Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Posted October 10, 2006:

• New Study Explores Role Of Theater In Maya Political Organization

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 8, 2006:

• Hail To The Hornworts: New Plant Family Tree Sheds Light On Evolution Of Life Cycles

Posted October 5, 2006:

• Humble Shoelace Tag Carried More Currency Than Gold On Columbus's Travels

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Uncovering DNA's 'Sweet' Secret
• Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia

Posted October 1, 2006:

• Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period
• New Fingerprinting For Art Authentication

Posted September 28, 2006:

• Geologists Help Find And Explain Earliest Known Human Ancestor Child

Posted September 21, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 20, 2006:

• Mechanism To Organize Nervous System Conserved In Evolution

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World
• Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week

Posted September 10, 2006:

• Climate Change Rocked Cradles Of Civilization
• Cognitive Strategy Shared By Human Infants And Great-ape Kin

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
• How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

Posted September 5, 2006:

• Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations'

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