In a recent PLoS ONE article, an international team of researchers reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change. Some of the media coverage of the study includes articles in Le Figaro and Popular Science, and blog posts on Wired Science, John Hawks's Blog, and Palaeoblog
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A PLoS ONE article on the neural activity involved in jazz improvisation was featured in Nature's Research Highlights of 2008 (as was a PLoS Biology article on the control of gene expression in yeast).
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