Science article on Homo Erectus makeover

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Smithsonian magazine cover story on hominid fossils

"Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins."

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Science article on the Evolution of Childhood

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Science article on Greening Haiti, Tree by Tree

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Science article on Ardipithecus Ramidus

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Science article on What's for Dinner? Researchers Seek Our Ancestors' Answers

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Science article on The View From Afar

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Science article on Habitat for Humanity

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Science article on A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled

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Science special issue articles on Ardipithecus unveiled.

"In this special issue of Science, a multidisciplinary international team presents the oldest known skeleton of a potential human ancestor, 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus from Aramis, Ethiopia. This remarkably rare skeleton is not the oldest putative hominin, but it is by far the most complete of the earliest specimens."

Details at Science's special Ardipithecus web page here. See also a summary here and a description of the Middle Awash project here, both at the Science magazine website.

Science article on the evolution of childhood.

"Unlike other apes, humans depend on their parents for a long period after weaning. But when--and why--did our long childhood evolve?"

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Op-ed from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with Beatriz Luna:

"THE NEW REPORT from the Centers for Disease Control on teen pregnancy confirms what many of us already know -- denying information to teens about how to prevent pregnancy does not prevent them from finding out about sex. It turns out they figure that out on their own. The recent rise in the teen birth rate, reversing a 14-year trend, proves that."

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Article in Science, Food for Thought

Did the first cooked meals help fuel the dramatic evolutionary expansion of the human brain?

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Op-ed from the Los Angeles Times:

"IT'S BEEN A TOUGH month for creationists. On April 6, evolutionary biologists announced the discovery of a fossil of Tiktaalik roseae, a giant fish whose fins were evolving into limbs when it died 375 million years ago. This scaly creature of the sea was in transition to becoming a land animal, the discoverers wrote in Nature ...."

The complete article can be viewed at: The Los Angeles Times