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Arun on evolution
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    0 starstigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2007 | women, psychology, evolution, science
    Evolutionary psychology | Sex, shopping and thinking pink | Economist.com

    Quoted: The brains of men and women are, indeed, different

    interesting, and a personal thought on this observation:
    "There is a fair amount of evidence that men are better than women at solving certain sorts of spatial problems, such as remembering the locations of topographical landmarks."

    men get lost all the time...and that's why GPS systems have "sexy" female voices to keep men alert about direction, etc. How come they don't have "sexy" male voices for women? Also, we have that saying, "men don't ask for directions"...it's not that they don't NEED them, b/c from personal experience, they do!

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    0 starstigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2007 | news, science, research, evolution
    Fossils challenge old evoluton theory - Yahoo! News

    Quoted: Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved...The Homo habilis jaw was dated at 1.44 million years ago. That is the youngest ever found from a species that scientists originally figured died off somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million years ago, Spoor said. It enabled scientists to say that Homo erectus and Homo habilis lived at the same time.

    Fascinating!

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    0 starstigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2007 | nature, evolution, religion
    The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths) | LiveScience

    Quoted: Why not teach all religions at school? To help out with this dilemma, we present a list of those Creation Myths that helped define civilizations both past and present.

    this is really cool--it goes through a bunch of world religions (some of them i had never heard of til now) and shows how each religion believes mankind was created! it's crazy how many of them have so much in common, even though they were created in different times, often far away from each other.

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