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Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time
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Central Chile's rugged Andes mountains preserve some of South America's best mammal fossils. But finding them requires endurance, persistence--and a willingness to climb. view the slideshow
Their results could change the way we imagine life arose on early Earth
Should You Accept the 600-to-One Odds That the Talpiot Tomb Belonged to Jesus?
Take a tour of the new Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History--view the gallery
Six debates at the frontier of science
Americans pour billions of dollars into supplements every year—an investment in health or money down the drain?
The Origin of the Greek Constellations
Astronomy and archaeology have together uncovered the history of how the star pictures came to be--and how people have used them over time
Recent fossil discoveries cast light on the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish
Flu preparedness, flexible electronics and stem cells all star in our fourth annual salute to the research, business and policy leaders of technology
The Early Evolution of Animals
Tiny fossils reveal that complex animal life is older than we thought--by at least as much as 50 million years
How Dinosaurs Grew So Large--and So Small
Giant Hominid teeth not for crunching nuts, but shellfish
Crawling Sensation
From all fours to bipedal giants--and needing parents
Flat feet and doubts about makers of the Laetoli tracks
How climate can promote speciation
Yucatán impact crater may have occurred before the dinosaurs went extinct
How we became hominid, then human
... for the 200-year search for links between embryos and evolution
A dazzling record of prehistoric carvings and paintings testifies to the cognitive complexity of our species
David Hurst Thomas issues a wake-up call to his fellow archaeologists
Continuing a family tradition, Meave G. Leakey uncovers the skeletons in your closet
From what they wore to how they hunted: overturning the threadbare reconstructions of Ice Age culture
From digging to designing, this celebrity scientist has helped map the evolution of dinosaurs
