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Power of Babel: Why one language isn't enough
December 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2842, p.34-37
Humans speak 7000 different tongues -- and not just to be difficult. Everything from genes to jungles has played a part.
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Chimp brains may be hard-wired to evolve language
December 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2842, p.7
synaesthesia-like abilities in chimps provide clues to how our early ancestors evolved their first words
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Chimp markets reveal evolution of friendship
December 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2842, p.6-7
wild chimps trade tools, food and favours to maintain group harmony
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Smallest habitable world around sun-like star found
December 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2842, p.4
the planet Kepler-22b, which may be rocky, is just 2.4 times as wide as Earth and sits right in the middle of the "Goldilocks" zone around its star
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Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes
December 8, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.237-240
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Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies
December 8, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.215-218
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Bible Accounts Supported by Dead Sea Disaster Record?
December 8, 2011 National Geographic News
new evidence suggests body once vanished, could again
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Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa
December 9, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6061, n.1388-1391
early humans constructed sleeping mats from local plants, including some with insecticidal properties
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Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction
December 9, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6061, p.1367-1372
high-precision geochronologic dating constrains probable causes of Earth's largest mass extinction
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Can Integration Tame Conflicts?
December 9, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6061, p.1356-1357
integration efforts can increase cooperation between ethnic or religious groups if competition is avoided
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Tohoku Inundation Spurs Hunt for Ancient Tsunamis
December 9, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6061, p.1341-1343
sand layers beneath Japan's Sendai Plain and other regions are evidence of massive tsunamis that struck eons ago and may augur future disaster risk
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First Solid Signs of the Higgs Boson Could Be Announced Next Week
December 9, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6061, p.1334
given the amount of data the Large Hadron Collider has produced in 2 years of running, some physicists say that--if it's there--the Higgs boson should begin to emerge from "background" particle collisions
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Geology Roundup
December 10, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News to Note
December 10, 2011 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Ötzi the iceman's stomach throws up a surprise
December 11, 2011 New Scientist, n.2842, p.10
the theory that Ötzi was caught and killed after a lengthy chase clashes with new evidence that he sat down for a leisurely meal an hour before his death
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Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia
December 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.12, p.1123-1126
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Early Man Stories Evolve
December 11, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Hopping Fish and Other Darwin Mysteries
December 12, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News Update/Commentary
Follow Your Nose: Compared to Neanderthals, Modern Humans Have a Better Sense of Smell
December 14, 2011 Science Daily
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Book
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
November 1, 2011 W. W. Norton
see also Amazon
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Book
Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique
December 1, 2011 Wiley
see also Amazon
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Explosive adaptive radiations explained without Darwin
December 12, 2011 Access Research Networ (blog)
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Hopping Fish and Other Darwin Mysteries
December 12, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Behavioral evidence for the evolution of walking and bounding before terrestriality in sarcopterygian fishes
December 12, 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Super-Earths give theorists a super headache
December 13, 2011 Nature News
an abundance of medium-sized worlds is challenging planet-formation models
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Kentucky school superintendent upset over omission of creation theory on biology test
December 14, 2011 Imperfect Parent
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Light tricks: How it can travel faster than itself
December 14, 2011 New Scientist, n.2843, p.35
Nothing can top light speed -- except light. Can we stop Einstein spinning in his grave?
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Earliest human bedding didn't let the bedbugs bite
December 14, 2011 New Scientist, n.2843, p.17
after a hard day hunting and gathering, humans 77,000 years ago could count on a good night's mosquito-free sleep on a comfy bed of grass and leaves
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How the brain became human
December 15, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.295
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News Update/Commentary
Close Family Ties Keep Cheaters in Check
December 15, 2011 Science Daily
why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell
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Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools
December 15, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.364-367
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Evolution: Darwinian Medicine's Drawn-Out Dawn
December 16, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6062, p.1486-1487
the medical community is recognizing evolutionary medicine's potential for providing a holistic framework for their increasingly specialized field, but proponents say there is still a long way to go
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Particle Physics: Search for Higgs Boson Yields a Definite Maybe
December 16, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6062, p.1482-1483
this week two teams of physicists reported tantalizing signs that the Higgs boson has been spotted, but one team sees additional oddities, so the results haven't bowled everyone over
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News to Note
December 17, 2011 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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The Big Debate Over the Oldest Life on Earth
December 1, 2011 Discover Magazine
one researcher says he has the oldest fossils ever found; another says that's just mangled, pressure-cooked rock
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King James Bible
December 1, 2011 National Geographic
First printed 400 years ago, it molded the English language, buttressed the “powers that be” -- one of its famous phrases -- and yet enshrined a gospel of individual freedom. No other book has given more to the English-speak
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How to See the Invisible
December 1, 2011 Scientific American
augumented-reality apps uncover the hidden reality all around you
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The Machine That Would Predict the Future
December 1, 2011 Scientific American
If you dropped all the world's data into a black box, could it become a crystal ball that would let you see the future -- even test what would happen if you chose A over B?
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Christopher Hitchens, RIP
December 16, 2011 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Human Variability Can Be Rapid
December 19, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Geologists Find Source of Stonehenge’s Inner Stones
December 19, 2011 Wired
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Observations Ruin Models of Planet Evolution
December 20, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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A Neanderthal dwelling using mammoth bones
December 21, 2011 Access Research Network (blog)
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Smart Guide to 2012: Humans' chimeric origins
December 21, 2011 New Scientist, n.2844, p.27
the roots of our species are being called into question in ways that challenge the roots of our identity
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Lowland-upland migration of sauropod dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic epoch
December 22, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.513-515
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A compact system of small planets around a former red-giant star
December 22, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.496-499
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Particle physics is at a turning point
December 22, 2011 Nature, v.480, p.415
the discovery of the Higgs boson will complete the standard model -- but it could also point the way to a deeper understanding
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Observations Upset Models of Stellar Evolution
December 22, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Pigeons on Par with Primates in Numerical Competence
December 23, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6063, p.1664
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Fossilized Nuclei and Germination Structures Identify Ediacaran “Animal Embryos” as Encysting Protists
December 23, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6063, p.1696-1699
high-resolution imaging of 570-million-year-old fossils suggests that they were not remnants of early animals