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Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson
Review by Sid Perkins.
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The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond
Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.
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Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson
Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.
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Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles by Bruce K. Young and Amy Zavatto
Bantam Dell Publishing, 2008, 334 p., $25.
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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.
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- Earth
Tough meteorite made a big impact
The stony meteorite that landed in a remote portion of Peru in September 2007 was traveling abnormally fast when it struck and blasted a crater that was unusually large for the its size, new analyses indicate.
- Life
X chromosome is extra diverse
Men who father children with multiple women are responsible for “extra” diversity on the X chromosome, a new study of six different populations suggests.
- Life
Safer creation of stem cells
A new technique for converting adult cells to stem cells avoids dangerous mutations in cell DNA
- Humans
Teaching babies to err
A puzzling error that infants make in a hiding game arises from their inherent tendency to interpret others’ behavior, a research team contends.
- Earth
New contender for Earth’s oldest rocks
Observing rare isotopes in rocks along the Hudson Bay in Northern Quebec suggest the rocks have remained intact for 4.28 billion years, making them Earth's oldest.
