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• How the turtle's shell evolved BBC
• Recepies for life: How genes evolve NewScientist
• Winged Superlatives: The Ancient and Modern Diversity of Bats SciAm
• A sea slug that gains the ability to turn sunlight into energy from the algae it eats is arguably the first functional plant-animal hybrid found in nature.NewScientist, PNAS
• How warfare shaped human evolution NewScientist
• Human ancestors born big brained BBC
• It didn't just have protolimbs, it had a mobile neck as well. More details have emerged about the anatomy of Tiktaalik, the "fishopod" that bridges the gap in evolutionary history between swimming fish and four-legged land-dwelling animals. NewScientist
• 'Complexity' of Neanderthal tools
  Early stone tools developed by our species Homo sapiens were no more sophisticated than those used by our extinct relatives the Neanderthals. BBC
• Using Causality to Solve the Puzzle of Quantum Spacetime AmSci
• Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests. BBC
• Ancient serpent shows its leg BBC
• Not So Tall Tale: Why Pygmies Evolved to Be Shorter SciAm
• Culture Speeds Up Human Evolution SciAm
• Potato 'fuel of human evolution' BBC

• 2005-09-04: Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human
• 2005-03-30: Fish Diversity Tied to Evolution of Diving Ability SciAm
• 2004-06-10. New species born: BBC
• 2004-03-25 Humans owe their big brains and sophisticated culture to a single genetic mutation that weakened our jaw muscles about 2.4 million years ago, a new study suggests. NewScientist, NSU ScAmer PubMed abstract
• 2004-03-19 Early man steered clear of Neanderthal romance
  No evidence of interbreeding between primitive humans.
  Original full research paper here
• 2002-08-05 Mitochondrial DNA and the origins of the domestic horse
• 2002-05-21 Stephen Jay Gould, one of the world's best-known palaeontologists and science writers, has died at the age of 60. BBC News
• 2002-03-09 Man left Africa three times
  There were at least three major waves of early human migration out of Africa, our DNA suggests. Apparently the wanderers made love, not war: gene patterns hint that later emigrants bred with residents.
• 2002-02-21 Evolution by Hox gene mutation
• 2002-01-13 Brain Proportions Reflect How Mammals are Related
• 2002-01-12 Genes Reveal Gypsies' Past