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• Ice Age Tools Hint at 40,000 Years of Bushman Culture

  August 3, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6094, p.512

  archaeologists studying a South African cave say they have found 44,000-year-old artifacts -- including bone tools and poisoned arrowheads -- nearly identical to those still in use by hunter-gatherers

• Neandertal Champion Defends the Reputation of Our Closest Cousins

  August 10, 2012 Science, v.337, n. 6095, p.642-643

  archaeologist João Zilhão and his critics trade charges over who truly invented artifacts at European sites -- and whether Neandertals were “modern”

• A New Face Reveals Multiple Lineages Alive at the Dawn of Our Genus Homo

  August 10, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6095, p.635

  after 40 years of searching, an international team of researchers has found fossils of a face and two jawbones that they say belong to the same species as the mysterious skull of Homo rudolfensis

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  Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life

  May 1, 2012 Princeton University Press

  see also Amazon

• Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.17

  carbon found in Martian rocks came from magma not alien life forms -- but the presence of reactive carbon raises hope for signs of life on Mars

• Birds got smart by becoming big babes

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.12

  the skulls of birds look just like the skulls of young dinosaurs, suggesting that arrested development was the key to their evolution

• Extra heatwaves could kill 150,000 Americans by 2099

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.4

• Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe

  May 31, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.14

  Who says time has to flow forwards? The Yupno people have a mental timeline that breaks all the rules -- it's not straight, and flows uphill

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  Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life

  June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press

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  Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

  June 1, 2012 Spiegel & Grau

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  Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

  June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press

  see also Amazon

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  Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

  June 1, 2012 University of Chicago Press

  see also Amazon

• Alan Turing: Intelligence and life

  June 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867

  a visionary thinker on artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, Turing devised the test that's used to gauge how close machines have come to us

• A palaeontologist's Alaskan adventure

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.50

  big digs in the Arctic reveal that it was inhabited by dinosaurs year-round and that the region was pleasantly temperate

• Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.34-35

  evolution is a game of chance ... six of the winning mutations that helped humans hit the jackpot

• Vast cosmic event leaves record in ancient trees

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.17

  tree rings formed in the 8th century record a peak in cosmic ray activity -- but what was the cause

• Autism study strengthens idea that we read God's mind

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.16

  people with autism are less likely to believe in God -- possibly because they have difficulty reading other's intentions

• Hawking's 'Escher-verse' could be theory of everything

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.8-9

  Stephen Hawking has come up with a way to describe the universe that suggests it may have the same geometry as mind-boggling images by M. C. Escher

• Stone Age long barrows housed living as well as dead

  June 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.32-33

  did Neolithic people really use earthen long barrows as cemeteries, or did the structures have a living purpose

• How much cheating is alright?

  June 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.30-31

  we're all prone to dishonesty, says Dan Ariely, but to avoid another financial meltdown, bankers really need to learn from the psychology of cheating

• Fossil bounty hunters' days may be numbered

  June 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.28-29

  there's fresh hope in the battle to curb poaching of important dinosaur fossils in Mongolia

• Angry lizard starts fights for no reason

  June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.16

  most animals don't start fights with other species as there's simply no point -- but nobody told the slap-happy Dalmatian wall lizard

• What a way to go: prehistoric turtles died during sex

  June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.15

  pairs of 47-million-year-old turtles are the only vertebrates known to have been fossilised while mating

• Oldest confirmed cave art is a single red dot

  June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.10-11

  a symbol on the wall of a Spanish cave is over 40,000 years old, meaning it could have been drawn by Neanderthals, or by the very first humans to come out of Africa

• Higgsteria as trouble brews for standard model

  June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.4

  even confirmation of last year's tentative signals may not complete our view of the universe's particles and forces

• The wasteful quest for immortality

  June 21, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.29

  Mary Midgley, the nonagenarian philosopher, believes that living forever is overrated: quality of life -- not quantity -- is more important

• Why haven't bald men gone extinct?

  June 21, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.44-47

  even as we get to grips with the biology of baldness, the shiny pate remains a real evolutionary mystery

• Sorry Einstein, the universe needs quantum uncertainty

  June 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.8

  remove one of quantum theory's weirdest components, and you end up with a perpetual motion machine

• Genes reveal grain of truth to Queen of Sheba story

  June 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.15

  about 3000 years ago, there was an influx of genes from the near East into Ethiopia -- around the same time the African Queen of Sheba purportedly met King Solomon

• Evolution could generate new semiconducting structures

  June 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.9

  the proteins that help sponges generate their silica skeletons have been harnessed to form new semiconducting structures

• Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.5

  the five-day banking brownout in the UK is tiny compared to the scenarios some cybersecurity experts fear

• Lonesome George dies but his subspecies genes survive

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.4

  the last Pinta Island tortoise, rarest animal in the world and Galápagos icon, has died

• Eats bark, fruit and leaves: Diet of ancient human

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.12

  Australopithecus sediba, a 2-million-year-old member of the human family, had a diet unlike other hominins alive at the time

• Is god's mercy to blame for high crime rates?

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.15

  fear of eternal damnation in hell could act as a deterrent, but belief in a forgiving god may make crime more tempting

• SETI chief still waiting for ET to call

  June 28, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.28-29

  After 35 years of searching, Jill Tarter is retiring as Earth's top alien hunter. She tells why alien rule of our planet would be benign.

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  Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

  July 1, 2012 Norton (Liveright)

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• Book

  Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

  July 1, 2012 Profile Books

  see also Amazon

• What kind of bang was the big bang?

  July 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.32-37

  There's trouble at the start of time: the theory of cosmic inflation has got way out of control. Can quantum theory and holograms tame it?

• Mission to the mantle: Drilling through Earth's crust

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.38-41

  It's geology's moonshot. A bold plan to drill into Earth's interior promises to solve profound mysteries about our planet -- and might even find life down there.

• Miracle buster: Why I traced holy water to leaky drain

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.27

  Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ came from a blocked drain

• Gotcha! Higgs find will kick off new era of knowledge

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.8-9

  the 50-year particle hunt looks to be almost over but the Higgs games are only just beginning

• Islamist threat to Timbuktu's ancient scientific texts

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.7

  The Ansar Dine islamist group is destroying historic tombs in the Malian town. An ancient collection of Islamic texts could be their next target.

• Titan's tides reveal hidden ocean that could host life

  July 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.17

  combined with its organic resources, abundant liquid water could make Saturn's moon prime real estate for alien life -- but that depends on the state of the ocean

• Oldest pottery hints at cooking's ice-age origins

  July 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.14

  fragments of pots from a Chinese cave are 20,000 years old, and may have been used to cook food during the depths of the last ice age

• How global warming is driving our weather wild

  July 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.32-37

  not only is global weather becoming much more extreme, it is becoming even more extreme than anyone expected

• As freak weather becomes the norm, we need to adapt

  July 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.5

  thanks to global warming, our weather is getting even more extreme than climate scientists predicted -- and we're doing a lousy job of preparing for it

• What compels people to give their money away?

  July 10, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.27

  meet Pamala Wiepking, who studies what makes philanthropists tick, and tells us why women, the elderly and the poor are more generous

• Hominins did not need boats to settle islands

  July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.15

  simulations suggest that relatively distant islands might have been settled by accidental castaways rather than by skilled mariners

• Growth of Earth's core may hint at magnetic reversal

  July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.14

  lopsided growth of the Earth's core could help predict when the planet's geomagnetic field will flip, leaving it exposed to dangerous solar winds

• Americas saw three waves of ancient settlers

  July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.12

  new DNA analysis backs up linguistic evidence that humans reached North America in three initial waves, not one