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  1. Anthropology

    Fossil Sparks

    Two new fossil discoveries and an analysis of ancient teeth challenge traditional assumptions about ape and human evolution.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Humans

    Letters from the November 3, 2007, issue of Science News

    Waste not, want not “Cellulose Dreams” (SN: 8/25/07, p. 120) ignored important research by David Tilman and Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota. They found that planting a crop of 18 different native prairie plants grown in highly degraded and infertile soil with little fertilizer or chemicals yielded substantially more bioenergy than a single […]

    By Science News
  3. Chemistry

    Chemistry—Weird and Otherwise

    During this—Chemistry Week—check out the “Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Chemistry.”