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		<title>Why Australia&#8217;s a fortunate country</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/21/why-australias-a-fortunate-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/21/why-australias-a-fortunate-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just take a look at what is happening to commodity exports...]]></description>
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		<title>Big breasts explained (through science)</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/14/breast-size-evolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/14/breast-size-evolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 00:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big breasts are an "anomaly" unique to the human primate. So why do female<em>homo sapiens</em> have them? Because male <em>homo sapiens</em> like them, apparently.]]></description>
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		<title>What chimps tell us about the new UK government</title>
		<link>http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/05/cameron-clegg-andchimps.html</link>
		<comments>http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/05/cameron-clegg-andchimps.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chimps often form strategic alliances to seize and keep control of their colonies, but it all turns wild if they don't actually like each other. Will Cameron and Clegg's primal differences be too much to overcome?]]></description>
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		<title>How Darwin killed werewolves</title>
		<link>http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3061/where_have_all_the_werewolves_gone.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3061/where_have_all_the_werewolves_gone.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charles darwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The werewolf topped the A-list of mythical creatures-of-the-night, until Darwin's theory of evolution came along, and suddenly it was Bigfoot, the Yeti and the Sasquatch playing a starring role in our nightmares. ]]></description>
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		<title>150 years of Darwin&#8217;s On the Origin of Species</title>
		<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120692695</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been 150 years since Charles Darwin published what many consider to be the most important book ever written, <em>On the Origin of Species</em>, and it's just as controversial today as the day it was published. ]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of women: slowly getting shorter and fatter</title>
		<link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17997-meet-future-woman-shorter-plumper-more-fertile.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17997-meet-future-woman-shorter-plumper-more-fertile.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shorter, heavier women tend to bear more children than tall, skinny ones. Therefore, thanks to the laws of evolution, women of the future are expected to continue the smaller, fatter bodies of their mothers. Great.]]></description>
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		<title>Five things you should know about evolution &#8212; but probably don&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/09/five-essential-things-to-know-about-evolution.ars</link>
		<comments>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/09/five-essential-things-to-know-about-evolution.ars#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolution is one of the most widely misunderstood areas of science, says science reporter <b>John Timmer</b>. Instead of focusing on evidence, there are a few things about the theory itself you should know.]]></description>
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		<title>Where do white people come from?</title>
		<link>http://www.livescience.com/culture/090109-why-white-people.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.livescience.com/culture/090109-why-white-people.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=84077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The large spectrum of human skin colours is a relatively recent development, says <em>LiveScience</em>. So why did different groups of people evolve a lighter hue? Contrary to popular belief, it isn't just about sunlight: sexual preference, frostbite and diet may all have played a role.]]></description>
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		<title>The mystery of brussel sprouts solved</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-73/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-73/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Richard Farmer</b> explores why some people hate brussel sprouts, AG Robert McClelland's proposed security laws and the fight against free speech at Yale University Press.]]></description>
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		<title>The neuroscience of McDonald&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/07/the_neuroscience_of_mcgriddles.php</link>
		<comments>http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/07/the_neuroscience_of_mcgriddles.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most pleasurable thing about eating McDonald's isn't the dripping cheese, salty chips or even the discount ice-cream cone: it's the calories. <b>Jonah Lehrer</b> explains why we're just hard-wired that way. ]]></description>
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		<title>Going down: explaining human behaviour in elevators</title>
		<link>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ftf-mastripieri/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ftf-mastripieri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 05:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=61866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do humans behave so weirdly in elevators? Monkeys and cave men hold the answer.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the bones of Ida</title>
		<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/chimp-change</link>
		<comments>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/chimp-change#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 47 million-year-old fossil gives a new sense of mankind's enduring adaptability.]]></description>
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		<title>The world map of human evolution</title>
		<link>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/04/flores-hominids/map-interactive</link>
		<comments>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/04/flores-hominids/map-interactive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we know we'er all evolved from lemurs, check out <i>National Geographic</i>'s interactive world map of significant archaeological finds in human evolution.]]></description>
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		<title>The missing link between humans and&#8230; lemurs?</title>
		<link>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-ida-primate-fossil-link.html</link>
		<comments>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-ida-primate-fossil-link.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly uncovered lemur-like skeleton with primate-like characteristics -- including grasping hands, opposable thumbs, and clawless digits with nails -- could be a "missing link" species in primate evolution.]]></description>
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		<title>Seal with &#8220;arms&#8221; discovered &#8212; evolution at work</title>
		<link>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090422-seal-evolution-missing-link.html</link>
		<comments>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090422-seal-evolution-missing-link.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly discovered prehistoric seal with "arms" is the no-longer missing link between seals' land-based ancestors and the ocean-dwelling, flippered creatures we know, a new study says. ]]></description>
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		<title>Running: what sets humans apart?</title>
		<link>http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_running_man_revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_running_man_revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some scientists argue that humans' ability to run marathons could be a trait that evolved out of necessity -- giving man the ability to outrun his prey. Could the survival of the fittest have been this literal?]]></description>
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