Biblio
Historical Geology


Ancient continent opens window on the early Earth, Science, 286, 2254-2256, 1999.

Archaeology: Siberian mammoth find raises hopes, questions, Science, 286, 876, 1999.

Archaeology: Siberian mammoth find raises hopes, questions, Science, 286, 876-, 1999.

Archeology: A victim of the Black Sea Flood found [re: Noah's Flood ???], Science, 289, 2021, 2000.

Asteroids form rocky relationships, Science, 284, 1099-1100, 1999.

Beating up on a young Earth, and possibly life [re: 4 billion year old meteor bombardment], Science, 290, 1677, 2000.

Climatology: A refuge for life on snowball Earth, Science, 288, 1316, 2000.

Earth Science: Did volcanoes drive ancient extinctions, Science, 289, 1130-, 2000.

Evolution 2000: Evolutionary trends from bacteria to birds, Science, 289, 1131-, 2000.

Evolution: In search of vertebrate origins: Beyond brain and bone, Science, 287, 1576, 2000.

Evolution: Puzzling over the origin of species in the depths of the oldest lakes, Science, 299, 654, 2003.

Evolution: Special Section (nine articles), Science, 284, 2105-, 1999.

Evolution: Stretching the reign of early animals, Science, 288, 789-, 2000.

Evolution: When fittest survive, do other animals matter?, Science, 288, 414-, 2000.

Evolutionary Biology: Gaining new insight into the molecular basis of evolution, Science, 285, 654, 1999.

Evolutionary Genetics: The why behind the Y, Science, 286, 877, 1999.

First hominids: In search of the first hominids, Science, 295, 1214, 2000.

Human anthropology: Modern men trace ancestry to African migrants, Science, 292, 1051, 2001.

Human Evolution: Migrations [re: 9 articles on human origins, Neanderthals vs. modern humans, etc.], Science, 291, 1721, 2001.

Letters: Science and "Truth" (re: Gould's comments on evolution), Science, 285, 663, 1999.

Mammalian evolution: Placentals' family tree drawn and quartered, Science, 294, 2266, 2001.

Mass extinctions: no darkness at noon to do in the dinosaurs?, Science, 295, 1445, 2002.

Modern humans: What made humans modern?, Science, 295, 1219, 2002.

News notes: Extinctions: More end-Permian impact proof, Geotimes, 46 (11), 12, 2001.

News notes: Reflections on the Tagish Lake meteorite [re: meteorite that fell in Canada, Jan 2000], Geotimes, 46 (11), 11, 2001.

News: Paleontology: Earliest animal tracks or just mud cracks?, Science, 295, 1209, 2002.

News: Paleontology: Fossil tnagles roots of human family tree, Science, 291, 2289, 2001.

News: Paleontology: New fossil may change idea of first mollusk, Science, 291, 2292, 2001.

News: Paring down the Big Five mass extinctions, Science, 294, 2072, 2001.

Paleoanthropology: A glimpse of humans' first journey out of Africa, Science, 288, 948-, 2000.

Paleoanthropology: African skull points to one human ancestor, Science, 295, 2192, 2002.

Paleoanthropology: Chinese stone tools reveal high-tech Homo erectus, Science, 287, 1566, 2000.

Paleoanthropology: Java skull offers new view of homo erectus, Science, 299, 1293, 2003.

Paleoanthropology: Kenyan skeleton shakes ape family tree, Science, 285, 1335, 1999.

Paleoanthropology: Neanderthals were cannibals, bones show, Science, 286, 18, 1999.

Paleoanthropology: Oldest Human DNA reveals Aussie oddity [re: Out of Africa hypothesis], Science, 291, 230, 2001.

Paleoanthropology: Scientists spar over claims of earliest human ancestor, Science, 291, 1460, 2001.

Paleoanthropology: Were 'Little People' the first to venture out of Africa?, Science, 297, 26, 2002.

Paleoceanography: Inconstant ancient seas and life's path, Science, 298, 1165, 2002.

Paleoceanography: Inconstant ancient seas and life's path, Science, 298, 1165, 2002.

Paleoclimate: An appealing snowball Earth that's still hard to swallow, Science, 287, 1734, 2000.

Paleoclimate: Tropical pacific a key to deglaciation, Science, 299, 183, 2003.

Paleontology: Biggest extinction hit land and sea, Science, 289, 1666-, 2000.

Paleontology: Doubts raised about dinosaur heart, Science, 291, 811, 2001.

Paleontology: earliest animals growing younger?, Science, 284, 412, 1999.

Paleontology: earliest signs of life just oddly shaped crud?, Science, 295, 1812, 2002.

Paleontology: Feathers, or flight of fancy [re: bird origins], Science, 288, 2124, 2000.

Paleontology: First upright vertebrate lived fast, died young, Science, 290, 917, 2000.

Paleontology: Four-winged dinos create a flutter, Science, 299, 491, 2003.

Paleontology: Learning to dissect dinosaurs--digitally, Science, 288, 1728-, 2000.

Paleontology: New feathered dino firms up bird links, Science, 288, 1721-, 2000.

Paleontology: New fossil fills gap in bird evolution, Science, 291, 225, 2001.

Paleontology: Revealing a dinosaurs heart of stone, Science, 288, 416, 2000.

Paleontology: Reversals reveal pitfalls in spotting ancient and E.T. life, Science, 296 (5572), 1384, 2002.

Paleontology: T. rex was fierce, yes, but feathered, too, Science, 285, 2052-, 1999.

Paleontology: Tiny, feathered dino is most birdlike yet, Science, 290, 1871, 2000.

Paleontology: Whiff of gas points to impact mass extinction, Science, 291, 1469, 2001.

Planetary Science: Deep Space 1 traces Braille back to Vesta, Science, 285, 993-994, 1999.

Primate origins: New fossils and a glimpse of evolution, Science, 295, 613, 2002.

Skull study targes Africa-only origins [re: out of Africa hypothesis], Science, 291, 231, 2001.

Solar system formation: The first rocks whisper of their origins, Science, 298, 350, 2002.

Asfaw, Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethopia, Nature, 416, 317, 2002.

Ashworth, Palaeontology: A fly in the biogeographic ointment, Nature, 423, 135, 2003.

Baba, Homo erectus calvarium from the Pleistocene of Java, Science, 299, 1384, 2003.

Bada, Origin of life: Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules, Science, 296 (5575), 1982, 2002.

Baker, Paleoclimate: Trans-Atlantic climate connections, Science, 296, 67, 2002.

Barrett, Palaeoclimatology: Cooling a continent [Antarctica], Nature, 421, 221, 2003.

Beard, Paleontology: East of Eden at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, Science, 295, 2028, 2002.

Benner, Evolution: Planetary biology - paleontological, geolocial, and molecular histories of life, Science, 296, 864, 2002.

Beukes, Tropical laterites, life on land, and the history of atmospheric oxygen in the Paleoproterozoic, Geology, 30, 491, 2002.

Bizzarro, Early history of Earth's crust-mantle system inferred from hafnium isotopes in chondrites, Nature, 421, 931, 2003.

Block, Grasping primate origin, Science, 298, 1606, 2002.

Blumenschine, Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid land use from western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Science, 299, 1217, 2003.

Bowen, Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, Science, 295, 2062, 2002.

Brasier, Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils, Nature, 416, 76, 2002.

Brodholt, Earth Science: Core values [re: estimates of the age of solidification of the inner core], Nature, 418, 489, 2002.

Brunet, A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa, Nature, 418, 145, 2002.

Cameron, Planetary science: Birth of a solar system [re: speed of solar system formation], Nature, 418, 924, 2002.

Caro, 146Sm-142Nd evidence from Isua metamorphosed sediments for early differentiation of the Earth's mantle, Nature, 423, 428, 2003.

Carroll, Palaeontology: Early land vertebrates, Nature, 418, 35, 2002.

Ceballos, Mammal population losses and the extinction crisis, Science, 296, 904, 2002.

Chapman, Planetary science: Earth's lunar attic, Nature, 419, 791, 2002.

Clack, An early tetrapod from 'Romer's Gap', Nature, 418, 72, 2002.

Clark, Stratigraphic, chronological, and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 423, 747, 2003.

Clarke, Geology: A foot in the past [re: oldest terrestrial footprints], Nature, 417, 129, 2002.

Colman, Paleoclimate: A fresh look at glacial floods, Science, 296, 1251, 2002.

Crowley, Paleoclimate: cycles, cycles everywhere, Science, 295, 1473, 2002.

Dalton, Microfossils: Squaring up over ancient life, Nature, 417, 782, 2002.

Dalton, Palaeoanthropology: Face to face with our past, Nature, 420, 735, 2002.

Day, Sauropod trackways, evolution, and behavior, Science, 296 (5573), 1659, 2002.

DeConto, Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2, Nature, 421, 245, 2003.

Dickson, Fossil echinoderms as monitor of the Mg/Ca ratio of Phanerozoic oceans, Science, 298, 1222, 2002.

Dillehay, Palaeoanthropology: Tracking the first Americans, Nature, 424, 23, 2003.

Doran, Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response, Nature, 415, 517, 2002.

Duncan, Ecology: Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged, Nature, 417, 608, 2002.

Dunlop, Preserved organs of Devonian harvestmen ['daddy long-legs' arachnids], Nature, 425, 916, 2003.

Esper, Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability, Science, 295, 2250, 2002.

Faupl, Geochronology: Dating of the Herto hominin fossils, Nature, 426, 621, 2003.

Foley, Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction, Nature, 421, 249, 2003.

Foley, Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones, Nature, 417, 837, 2002.

Gale, Global correlation of Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous sequences: Evidence for Milankovitch control on sea level, Geology, 30, 291, 2002.

Gao, Earliest known crown-group salamanders, Nature, 422, 424, 2003.

Gentry, Precise dating of Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillations in western Europe from stalagmite data, Nature, 421, 833, 2003.

Grant, Unpredictable evolution in a 30 year study of Darwin's finches, Science, 296, 707, 2002.

Guo, Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China, Nature, 416, 159, 2002.

Hendy, Abrupt decrease in tropical Pacific sea surface salinity at end of Little Ice Age, Science, 295, 1511, 2002.

Hesselbo, Terrestrial and marine extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary synchronized with major carbon-cycle perturbation: A link to initiation of massive volcanism, Geology, 30, 251, 2002.

Hinrichs, Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in Late Pleistocene coastal waters, Science, 299, 1214, 2003.

Humber, Eocene El Niño: Evidence for robust tropical dynamics in the "hothouse", Science, 299, 877, 2003.

Hutchinson, Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner, Nature, 415, 1018, 2002.

Itoh, Contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions in the early Solar System, Nature, 423, 728, 2003.

Ivanov, B.A., and H.J. Melosh, Impacts do not initiate volcanic eruptions: Eruptions close to the crater, Geology, 31, 869, 2003.

Jaeger, Mammalian evolution: Isolationist tendencies [re: isolation of African mammals until 24 m.y. ago], Nature, 426, 509, 2003.

Janvier, Paleobiology: Calcification of early vertebrate cartilage, Nature, 417, 609, 2002.

Ji, The earliest known eutherian mammal, Nature, 416, 816, 2002.

Johnson, A high-resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern east Africa, Science, 296, 113, 2002.

Johnson, A tropical rainforest in Colorado 1.4 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Science, 296, 2379, 2002.

Kappelman, Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia, Nature, 426, 549, 2003.

Kasting, Life and the evolution of Earth's atmosphere, Science, 296, 1066, 2002.

Kaufman, High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils, Nature, 425, 279, 2003.

Kaufman, High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils, Nature, 425, 279, 2003.

Kaufman, High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils, Nature, 425, 279, 2003.

Kaufman, High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils, Nature, 425, 279, 2003.

Kenrick, Palaeobotany: Fishing for the first plants, Nature, 425, 248, 2003.

Kenrick, Palaeobotany: Fishing for the first plants, Nature, 425, 248, 2003.

Kenrick, Palaeobotany: Fishing for the first plants, Nature, 425, 248, 2003.

Klein, Paleoanthropology: Whither the Neanderthals?, Science, 299, 1525, 2003.

Kleine, Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf-W chronometry, Nature, 418, 952, 2002.

Knorr, Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation, Nature, 424, 532, 2003.

Lowe, Ironstone pods in the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Earth's oldest seafloor hydrothermal vents reinterpreted as Qaternary subaerial springs, Geology, 31, 909, 2003.

Lubick, Palaeoclimatology: Snowball fights, Nature, 417, 12, 2002.

MacNaughton, First steps on land: Arthropod trackways in Cambrian-Ordovician eolian sandstone, southeastern Ontario, Canada, Geology, 30, 391, 2002.

Martin, Palaeontology: Combing the primate record [re: oldest lorises and bushbabies], Nature, 422, 388, 2003.

Melchor, Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic, Nature, 417, 936, 2002.

Mietto, Human footprints in Pleistocene volcanic ash, Nature, 422, 133, 2003.

Miller, The oldest articulated chondrichthyan from the Early Devonian period, Nature, 424, 501, 2003.

Mojzsis, Global change: Probing early atmospheres, Nature, 425, 249, 2003.

Mojzsis, Global change: Probing early atmospheres, Nature, 425, 249, 2003.

Moore, Palaeoecology: Climate records spruced up, Nature, 417, 133, 2002.

Moy, Variability of El Nino/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch, Nature, 420, 162, 2002.

Nakano, Larval stages of a living sea lily (stalked crinoid echinoderm), Nature, 421, 158, 2003.

Niewoehner, Digital analysis: Manual dexterity in Neanderthals, Nature, 422, 395, 2003.

Nishida, Palaeobotany: Swimming sperm in an extinct Gondwanan plant, Nature, 422, 396, 2003.

Norell, Palaeontology: 'Modern' feather on a non-avian dinosaur, Nature, 416, 36, 2002.

Norris, Jiggling the tropical thermostat in the Cretaceous hothouse [re: tropical sea surface temperature found to be warmer than today], Geology, 30, 299, 2002.

Olsen, P.E., D.V. Kent, and e. al., Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Science, 296, 1305, 2002.

Prum, Palaeontology: Dinosaurs take to the air [re: bird origins], Nature, 421, 323, 2003.

Rapp, Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite, Nature, 425, 605, 2003.

Rasmussen, discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old, Science, 296, 1112, 2002.

Rauhut, A Jurassic mammal from South America, Nature, 416, 165, 2002.

Reichow, 40AR/39AR dates from the west Siberian Basin: Siberian flood basalt province doubled, Science, 296 (5574), 1846, 2002.

Renne, Geology: Flood basalts--- bigger and badder, Science, 296 (5574), 1812, 2002.

Richards, Archaeology: Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic, Nature, 425, 367, 2003.

Rogers, Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus, Nature, 422, 515, 2003.

Royer, Carbon loss by deciduous trees in CO2-rich ancient polar environment, Nature, 424, 60, 2003.

Sabadini, Paleoclimate: Ice sheet collapse and sea level change, Science, 295, 2376, 2002.

Sargis, Palentology: Primate origins nailed, Science, 298, 1564, 2002.

Seiffert, Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos, Nature, 422, 421, 2003.

Shu, Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys, Nature, 421, 526, 2003.

Shu, A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution, Science, 299, 1380, 2003.

Siddall, Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle, Nature, 423, 853, 2003.

Spicer, Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years, Nature, 421, 622, 2003.

Stewart, A 20-km-diameter multi-ringed impact structure in the North Sea [probably 60-65 m.y. old], Nature, 418, 520, 2002.

Stone, Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Science, 299, 99, 2003.

Stringer, Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia, Nature, 423, 692, 2003.

Tanaka, Fin development in a cartilaginous fish and the origin of vertebrate limbs, Nature, 416, 527, 2002.

Tavare, Using the fossil record to estimate the age of the last common ancestor of extant primates, Nature, 416, 726, 2002.

Tedford, An Arctic mammal fauna from the Early Pliocene of North America, Nature, 425, 388, 2003.

Templeton, Out of Africa again and again, Nature, 416, 45, 2002.

Valley, A cool early Earth [re: evidence for cool surface temperatures & liquid water between 4.4 & 4.0 b.y.a.], Geology, 30, 351, 2002.

Walkden, A late Triassic impact ejecta layer in southwestern Britain, Science, 298, 2185, 2002.

Weil, Mammalian evolution: Upwards and onwards, Nature, 416, 798, 2002.

Wellman, Fragments of the earliest land plants, Nature, 425, 282, 2003.

Wellman, Fragments of the earliest land plants, Nature, 425, 282, 2003.

White, Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 423, 742, 2003.

Whitehouse, Metasomatic origin of quartz- pyroxene Rock, akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth's earliest life, Science, 296 (5572), 1448, 2002.

Wiechert, Geology: Earth's early atmosphere, Science, 298, 2341, 2002.

Wilson, Archaean ultra-depleted komatiites formed by hydrous melting of cratonic mantle, Nature, 423, 858, 2003.

Wood, Palaeoanthropology: Hominid revelations from Chad, Nature, 418, 133, 2002.

Wood, Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia, Science, 296, 2383, 2002.

Wyman, Formation of Archean continental lithospheric roots: The role of mantle plumes, Geology, 30, 543, 2002.

Xu, A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia, Nature, 416, 314, 2002.

Xu, Four-winged dinosaurs from China, Nature, 421, 335, 2003.

Yamazaki, Orbital influnce on earth's magnetic field: 100,000 year periodicity in inclination, Science, 295, 2435, 2002.

Zhou, An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous, Nature, 421, 807, 2003.

Zhou, A long-tailed, seed-eating bird from the Early Cretaceous of China, Nature, 418, 405, 2002.

Zhu, Palaeontology: First Devonian tetrapod from Asia, Nature, 420, 760, 2002.

Zhu, A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish, Nature, 418, 767, 2002.

Zschokke, Palaeontology: Spider-web silk from the Early Cretaceous, Nature, 424, 636, 2003.

Zuilen, v., Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life, Nature, 418, 627, 2002.

Aiello, Palaeoanthropology: Our newest oldest ancestor?, Nature, 410, 526-527, 2001.

Albarede, Hf-Nd isotope evidence for a transient dynamic regime in the early terrestrial mangle, Nature, 404, 488, 2000.

Alegret, Benthic foraminifera at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary around the Gulf of Mexico, Geology, 29, 891, 2001.

Anbar, Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution-A bioinorganic bridge?, Science, 297, 1137, 2002.

Asfaw, e.a., Australopithecus garhi: a new species of early hominid from Ethiopia, Science, 284, 629-635, 1999.

Ashley, G.M., Geologists probe hominid environments [re: paleoenvironment at Olduvai Gorge], GSA Today, 10:2 (Feb), 24-, 2000.

Banfield, J.F., and C.R. Marshall, Genomics and the Geosciencesq, Science, 287, 605-, 2000.

Basden, A.M., et al., The most primitive osteichthyan braincase?, Nature, 403, 185-, 2000.

Becker, Impact event at the Permian-Triassic boundary: Evidence from extraterrestrial noble gases in fullerenes, Science, 291, 1530, 2001.

Beerling, CO2 and the end-Triassic mass extinction, Nature, 415, 386, 2002.

Beerling, Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era, Nature, 410, 352, 2001.

Benton, M.J., et al., Quality of the fossil record through time, Nature, 403, 534-, 2000.

Berman, Early Permian bipedal reptile, Science, 290, 969, 2000.

Berner, Isotope fractionation and atmospheric oxygen: Implications for Phanerozoic O2 evolution, Science, 287, 1630, 2000.

Bernstein, e.a., Life's far-flung materials (re: interstellar organic molecules), Scientific American, 281 (July), 42-, 1999.

Blackwell, M., Evolution: Terrestrial life - fungal from the start?, Science, 289, 1884-, 2000.

Boger, Early Paleozoic tectonism within the East Antarctic craton: The final suture between east and west Gondwana?, Geology, 29, 463, 2001.

Borg, e.a., The age of the carbonates in Martian meteorite ALH84001, Science, 286, 90-, 1999.

Bottjer, D.J., et al., The Cambrian substrate revolution, GSA Today, 10:9 (Sept), 1-7, 2000.

Brocks, e.a., Archean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes, Science, 285, 1033-1036, 1999.

Brown, K.S., Phylogeny: Deep green rewrites evolutionary history of plants, Science1999, 285, 990-991, 1999.

Bruhn, D., et al., An interconnected network of core-forming melts produced by shear deformation, Nature, 403, 883-, 2000.

Buffetaut, E., et al., The earliest known sauropod dinosaur, Nature, 407, 72-, 2000.

Burrett, C., and R. Berry, Proterozoic Australia-Western United States (AUSWUS) fit between Laurentia and Australia, Geology, 28, 103-, 2000.

Caffee, e.a., Primordial noble gases from Earth's mantle: identification of a primitive volatile component, Science, 285, 2115-, 1999.

Canfield, D.E., et al., The Archean sulfur cycle and the early history of atmospheric oxygen, Science, 288, 658-, 2000.

Carlson, R.W., et al., Continental growth, preservation, and modification in southern Africa, GSA Today, 10:2 (Feb), 1-, 2000.

Chapelle, A hydrogen-baed subsurface microbial community dominated by methanogens [re: life that could exist on other planets], Nature, 415, 2002.

Chapman, Planetary science: Earth's lunar attic, Nature, 419, 791, 2002.

Clark, G.A., Modern human origins: highly visible, curiously intangible, Science, 283, 2029-2032, 1999.

Clayton, Atmospheric chemistry: Rock signature from the sky [re: atmospheric evolution], Nature, 406, 136, 2000.

Clift, Earth Science: Baked Alaska [re: Eocene warmth and methane emmission from the Gulf of Alaska], Nature, 419, 129, 2002.

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Cohen, Support for the Lunar Cataclysm hypothesis from lunar meteorite impact melt ages [re: 4 b.y. late bombardment], Science, 290, 1754, 2000.

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Cooper, Carbonaceous meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early Earth, Nature, 414, 879, 2001.

Crepet, N.a., Letters: Early plant history: something borrowed, something new?, Science, 285, 1673, 1999.

Culotta, E., A new human ancestor?, Science, 284, 572-573, 1999.

Dainton, Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk?, Nature, 410, 324, 2001.

Davies, Early Oligocene initiation of North Atlantic Deep Water formation, Nature, 410, 917, 2001.

Day, Biomechanics: Dinosaur locomotion from a new trackway, Nature, 415, 494, 2002.

de Pomerai, D., et al., Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth' simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model, Nature, 405, 425-, 2000.

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Defleur, e.a., Neanderthal cannibalism at Moula-Guercy, Ardèche, France, Science, 286, 128, 1999.

Delsemme, An argument for the cometary origin of the biosphere, American Scientist, 89, 432, 2001.

Dover, V., Marine Biology: Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates, Science, 295, 1253, 2002.

Dyson, Letters: Darwin in Kansas, Science, 285, 1355, 1999.

Erbacher, Increased thermohaline stratification as a possible cause for an ocean anoxic event in the Cretaceous Period, Nature, 409, 325, 2001.

Erickson, Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates, Nature, 412, 429, 2001.

Eriksson, K.A., and E.L. Simpson, Quantifying the oldest tidal record: The 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, Barbeton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Geology, 28, 831-, 2000.

Erwin, Life's ups and downs [re: pattern of recovery of biodiversity following mass extinctions], Nature, 404, 129, 2000.

Farmer, Hydrothermal systems: Doorways to early biosphere evolution, GSA Today, 10:7 (July), 1-, 2000.

Feduccia, Palaeocology: Fossils and avian evolution [comment and reply], Nature, 414, 507, 2001.

Flannery, North American devastation or global cataclysm? [re: K/T boundary mass extinction], Science, 294, 1668, 2001.

Flannery, T.F., Debating extinction, Science, 283, 182-183, 1999.

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Gabunia, L., et al., Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: taxonomy, setting, and age, Science, 288, 1019-, 2000.

Gaidos, e.a., Biogeochemistry: life in ice-covered oceans, Science, 284, 1631-, 1999.

Galtier, N., N., Tourasse, and M. Gouy, A nonhyperthermophilic common ancestor to extant life forms, Science, 283, 220-221, 1999.

Ganeshram, Global change: Oceanic action at a distance [re: glacial cycles and changing CO2], Nature, 419, 123, 2002.

Gebo, The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates, Nature, 404, 276, 2000.

Gee, Palaeontology: Return to the planet of the apes [re: human and ape origins], Nature, 412, 131, 2001.

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Goren-Inbar, N., et al., Pleistocen milestones on the out-of-Africa corridor at Gesher Bont Ya-aqov, Israel, Science, 289, 944-947, 2000.

Gould, S.J., Darwin's more stately mansion, Science, 285 (June 25), 2087, 1999.

Gowlett, Archaeology: Out in the cold [re: human artefects in the Arctic during the last ice age], Nature, 413, 33, 2001.

Grant, Adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches, American Scientist, 90, 130, 2002.

Haile-Selassie, Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 412, 178, 2001.

Halliday, Earth Science: In the beginning... [re: oldest zircons (4.4 b.y.)], Nature, 409, 144, 2001.

Halliday, A.N., and M.J. Drake, Origin of Earth and Moon: colliding theories, Science, 283, 1861-1863, 1999.

Hedges, Human evolution: A start for population genomics, Nature, 408, 652, 2000.

Heinzelin, e.a., Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids, Science, 284, 625-629, 1999.

Henderson, Evidence from U-Th dating against Northern Hemisphere forcing of the penultimate deglaciation, Nature, 404, 61, 2000.

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