SoT 87: Complex Mating Rituals With Balls of Dung

Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.

Topics covered:

• A recap of what we talked about last week
• Leprosy bacteria use ‘biological alchemy’
• Lowly Dung Beetles Are Insect Astronomers
• DNA pioneer: Cloning a Neanderthal would require “adventurous” woman
  • Harvard professor blasts Neanderthal clone baby rumor on Web
  • The Daily Mail’s doom and gloom prediction about the Large Hadron Collider.
• Diapers Hinder Walking for Babies
• We the Geeks: Best White House Science Petitions

A life-size model of a homo neanderthalensis at the Museum Neandertal in Germany.
Image: Neozoon via WikiMedia Commons.

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