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  1. Using a fork and knife to make that Christmas dinner feast more bite-sized? News flash: chimps use tools to cut big fruit http://ow.ly/PB1X
  2. And now a little on human diet: possible evidence from Mozambique for earliest grain (sorghum) eating 105,000 years ago http://ow.ly/OBLa
  3. More on apes and diet: ape tooth shape designed to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce http://ow.ly/OBDx
  4. @whtgetsonmyt__s Thanks for the heads up - interesting!
  5. Are humans' long life spans, compared with apes, linked to meat-eating? http://ow.ly/OARx
  6. @geolarson2 Thanks!
  7. RT @climate__change: How can we start to understand the role of climate variability on Pleistocene human evolution? http://bit.ly/8wsYxw
  8. Friday Fun Fact: The prominent whites of human eyes are unique. Why? Did they evolve for communcation and cooperation? http://ow.ly/Nop8
  9. RT @NatGeoChannel: Paleolithic man is thought to have observed the moon & sun to plan for hunting, gathering, & migrations http://ow.ly/Na34
  10. RT @sciencenewsorg: Stone Age campers set up separate activity areas, had advanced organizational thinking ~800,000 ya http://bit.ly/6EgEjw
  11. RT @geolarson2: RT @Discovery_News: World's rarest gorilla captured on video. http://ow.ly/N3Ow
  12. RT @science: Ardi fossil find named 2009's breakthrough of the year by AAAS journal Science http://bit.ly/61cDPR
  13. Savanna chimps can understand and predict the movements of wildfires; they even do "fire dances"! http://ow.ly/N77x
  14. @ bprosperi @legendinmymind Many people don't know about tool use in other animals, so we think it's great to have it in the news.
  15. Thought tool use was unique to humans? Think again. Even an octopus can do it! http://ow.ly/MI0b
  16. It's not too late to become a volunteer in the upcoming Hall of Human Origins! Two interview dates left: 12/17 & 12/30. http://ow.ly/M48C
  17. @zippyg2 We even chose "F" in honor of Friday!
  18. Friday Fun Fact: The famous Laetoli fossil footprints: found from a friendly feces-flinging fest. Say that 3x fast! http://ow.ly/L3fr
  19. Human evolution kicks into high gear - positive selection rates 100x higher in past 5,000 years than ever before http://ow.ly/KANM
  20. Scientists suggest that being rude may be a defense to disease (@SmithsonianMag). Be nice to strangers anyways. http://ow.ly/JYu4