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Linnean Society celebrates seminal evolution papers. 2008.
Nature
454:14-15. [“This week
150 years ago, papers by British naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
were read at the Linnean Society of London. . . . On Tuesday, society members recreated
the 1 July 1858 reading at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly.”]
Miller, K. R. 2008.
Only a theory: Evolution and the battle for America's soul
. Viking, New York.
[See review by P. Z. Myers,
Nature
454 (2008): 581-82.]
Neanderthal genomics
. 2006. Special issue,
Nature
444.
Noonan, J. P., et al. (ten coauthors). 2006. Sequencing and analysis of Neanderthal genomic
DNA.
Science
314:1113-18.
Pagani, M., K. Caldeira, R. Berner, and D. J. Beerling. 2009. The role of terrestrial plants in
limiting atmospheric CO
2
decline over the past 24 million years.
Nature
460:85-88.
Pennisi, E. 2006. The dawn of Stone Age genomics.
Science
314:1068-71. [See inset by
Michael Balter.]
The Politics of Jesus. 2006.
Newsweek
, 13 November.
Refi tted drilling ship sets sail. 2009.
Nature
457:648. [The JOIDES Resolution revamped at
a cost of $130 million departed from Singapore on 25 January 2009 to drill cores in the
equatorial Pacifi c for study of extreme climate changes.]
Schulman, S. 2006.
Undermining science: Suppression and distortion in the Bush administration
.
University of California Press, Berkeley.
Silver, L. M. 2006.
Challenging nature: The clash of science and spirituality at the new frontiers of
life
. HarperCollins, New York. [See reviews by J. T. Bradley,
Nature
444 (2006): 271-72,
and M. A. Goldman,
Science
314 (2006): 423].
Spread the word. 2008. Editorial.
Nature
451:108. [“Evolution is a scientifi c fact, and every
organization whose research depends on it should explain why.”]
Steig, E. J., et al. (fi ve coauthors). 2009. Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the
1957 International Geophysical Year.
Nature
457:459-62.
Stocker, T. F., and C. C. Raible. 2005. Water cycle shifts gear.
Nature
434:830-33. [“Various
studies indicate that the hydrological cycle is speeding up at high northern latitudes. The
resulting increase in freshwater fl ow into the Arctic Ocean is predicted to have long-range
effects.”]
Tzedakis, P. C., K. A. Hughen, I. Cacho, and K. Harvati. 2007. Placing late Neanderthals in a
climatic context.
Nature
449:206-8.
Wigley, P. 2008. Religion and science: Separated by an unbridgeable chasm.
Nature
455:590.
Wynn, T., and F. L. Coolidge. 2008. A stone-age meeting of minds.
Am. Sci
. 96:44-51.