NYTimes: In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration – LINK
Self Medication, Wildlife Style: How Birds and Other Creatures Use Medicinal Plants – LINK
We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. Is It Worth the Cost? – LINK
Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction – The Atlantic – LINK
The dog family tree revealed through genetics: Nature News & Comment — LINK
Global hotspots for alien invasions revealed – LINK
Growing blacklegged tick populations = growing incidence of tick-borne illnesses (including Lyme disease)
Scientists Have Found the Oldest Known Human Fossils – The Atlantic – LINK
This Changing Life 