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New Brain Gene Gives Us Edge Over Apes
An international team of researchers led by Scottish scientists has discovered a brain gene that helps explains how humans...
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Neanderthals May Have Sailed to Crete
Neanderthals, or even older Homo erectus (“Upright Man”) might have sailed around the Mediterranean, stopping at islands such as...
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Humans Used Spears for Hunting 200,000 Years Earlier Than Believed
Human ancestors were making spears to hunt 500,000 years ago – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, a study...
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With Economy Trumping Emissions, Obama Plans Climate Education Push
From Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times: President Obama’s first long discussion of human-driven global...
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Goals for Science in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The UN Secretary-General’s high-level panel on life after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — the Post-2015 Development Agenda —...
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BP to Plead Guilty to Felonies in Deepwater Horizon Spill
BP PLC has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges and pay $4.5 billion in penalties, including $1.26 billion...
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Atheist Group Sues Over Religious Electioneering
A Madison, Wis.-based group of atheists and agnostics argues in a federal lawsuit that the Internal Revenue Service is...
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Early Human Ancestors Ate Grass
Early human ancestors in central Africa 3.5 million years ago ate a diet of mostly tropical grasses and sedges,...
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New Fossil Sheds Light on Oldest Known Ancestor of Giant Panda
In May, Dr Juan Abella and colleagues from the Spain’s National Museum of Natural Sciences and the Catalan Institute...
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Al Gore Calls on Barack Obama to ‘Act Boldly’ on Climate Change
Former vice-president and climate champion urges re-elected president to immediately begin pushing for a carbon tax