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Top Stories | November 7
  • Macaws bred far from tropics during pre-Columbian times
    Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
  • On the Scene: A health-care communication revolution
    Discussing how physicians and patients can cure their misunderstandings of medical statistics.
  • Redefining self, phantom self
    Amputees who feel phantom limbs can learn to do physically impossible body tricks
  • A gene critical for speech
    Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language.
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    A gene critical for speech
    Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language.
    Junk food turns rats into addicts
    Bacon, cheesecake and Ho Hos elicit addictive behavior in rats similar to the behavior of rats addicted to heroin.
    On the Scene: Droughts gave early humans survival skills for later travels
    Droughts were actually good times for early humans, helping to develop skills for survival in other parts of the world, Lisa Grossman reports in a blog from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's New Horizons in Science meeting.
    Mental disorders don't hinder headache treatment
    Headache patients may benefit from drug treatment even if they also suffer from depression or anxiety.
    Pygmies' short stature linked to high death rates
    Island-dwelling pygmies provide contested evidence that body size shrinks as mortality rates climb.
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    Science & the Public: BPA in the womb shows link to kids’ behavior
    Subtle gender-linked effects seen in youngsters mirror impacts witnessed earlier in rodents.
    Monkey moms and babies communicate from the start
    Macaque mothers and infants engage in emotional interactions similar to those of human moms and their babies, a new study suggests.
    Joint attention provides clues to autism and cooperation
    Psychologists and philosophers convene to discuss the roots of shared knowledge at a meeting in Waltham, Mass.
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