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Posted October 3, 2006:

• Evolutionary Tug-of-War Decides Which Sex Provides Care
• Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia

Posted October 2, 2006:

• A Plan For Reintroducing Megafauna To North America
• 'Carnivorous' Coelophysis Dinosaur Fossil Re-Examined -- Last Meal Was Primitive Crocodile

Posted October 1, 2006:

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

Posted September 29, 2006:

• Scientist's Persistence Sheds Light On Marine Science Riddle

Posted September 28, 2006:

• Dinosaurs' Climate Shifted Too, Reports Show
• How Nature Tinkers With The Cellular Clock
• Geologists Help Find And Explain Earliest Known Human Ancestor Child

Posted September 26, 2006:

• NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels

Posted September 25, 2006:

• Computer Hunt For Rock Carvings

Posted September 23, 2006:

• 'Killer' B Cells Demonstrate Evolutionary Link Between Fish And Mammal Immune Systems

Posted September 22, 2006:

• Ancient Birds Flew On All-Fours
• Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues To Past

Posted September 21, 2006:

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

Posted September 20, 2006:

• Imaging Technology Restores 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Text
• Mechanism To Organize Nervous System Conserved In Evolution

Posted September 19, 2006:

• Don't Care For Broccoli? A Bitter Taste Receptor Gene's Variation Suggests An Evolutionary Excuse

Posted September 18, 2006:

• Single Molecular 'Mark' Seen As Pivotal For Genome Compaction In Spores And Sperm

Posted September 16, 2006:

• Rare Evolutionary Example Of 'Recent' Embosymbiont Offers Clues To How Plants Came To Be
• Rodent's Bizarre Traits Deepen Mystery Of Genetics, Evolution

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World
• Distinct Genetic Profiles Found For Northern, Southern Europeans
• Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week

Posted September 14, 2006:

• Scent Of Father Checks Daughter's Maturity

Posted September 11, 2006:

• Genetic Surprise: Mobile Genes Found To Pressure Species Formation
• Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-Sea Creatures

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 6, 2006:

• Good Times Ahead For Dinosaur Hunters, According To Dinosaur Census

Posted September 5, 2006:

• Researcher Studies Gene Families To Explore Diversity And Evolution
• Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys

Posted September 3, 2006:

• Evolution Of Old World Fruit Flies On Three Continents Mirrors Climate Change

Posted August 31, 2006:

• Manatee Bones Lead To New Insight On Evolution

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations'
• Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests
• Greenhouse Methane Released From Ice Age Ocean

Posted August 29, 2006:

• Red Fish, Blue Fish: Distinctive Color Keeps Gene Pools Healthy

Posted August 28, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 27, 2006:

• Evolving Defenses Rapidly Suppress Male Killers

Posted August 26, 2006:

• Use Of Stone Hammers Sheds Light On Geographic Patterns Of Chimpanzee Tool Use
• Insect Predation Sheds Light On Food Web Recovery After The Dinosaur Extinction

Posted August 25, 2006:

• Remote Island Provides Clues On Population Growth, Environmental Degradation
• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 24, 2006:

• Study Rules Out Ancient 'Bursts' Of Methane From Seafloor Deposits

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