Natural History

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Articles in Feb 2002 issue of Natural History

• The great lemur mystery - In Sum - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• The unsung ancients: very old trees aren't necessarily as rare-or as big-as you think - old growth woodlands - Brief Article
  by David W. Stahle
• Now playing: "Fly Morph-O-Genesis" - nature.net - Society for Developmental Biology site - Brief Article
  by Robert Anderson
• Survivors - Up Front - tree protection - Brief Article
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Mite life - In Sum - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Slender in the night: long unstudied, the slender loris of South Asia emerges from primatology's shadows
  by K.A.I. Nekaris
• Bookshelf. - book review
• Be afraid, be very afraid - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Cool customers - In Sum - discoveries of human life in the Arctic - Brief Article
  by Erin M. Espelie
• Why are there no lobsters on lands or bats at sea? The answer appears to be a biological version of beginner's luck - branching of land, sea organisms
  by Geerat J. Vermeij
• The feeding is mutual - The natural moment - ant-plant relationship - Brief Article
  by Judy Rice
• Art and history - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Thomas Presbie
• Beetle juice - In Sum - stenocara - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Hairy noses: it's a small, sticky world out there - Biomechanics - stomapods smell by sampling water - Brief Article
  by Adam Summers
• Dinosaur dreamer - Endpaper - Los Angeles in the dinosaur age - Brief Article
  by Michael Novacek
• Giving thanks and credit - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Michael Wujtowicz
• Flowers of evil: potent chemicals lurk behind some of South America's most alluring blossoms - Naturalist At Large
  by Rob Nicholson
• What has been will be again: newly forming stars and planets bejewel Orion's sword - Celestial Events - Brief Article
  by Richard Panek
• Musical note - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Laura Dillaway
• Grand opening: coming this spring to a woods near you: breaking buds - In The Field
  by Bernd Heinrich
• The sky in February - Brief Article
  by Joe Rao
• Erratum - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Remembrance of pathogens past: a physician ponders suggestive evidence that periodic infections are needed to foster a normal immune system - Findings
  by T.V. Rajan
• Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. . - Review: what's it all about, Alfred? - book review
  by Richard Milner
• Going with the flow: a Texas river winds through town and country - This Land - Brief Article
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• All for one and one for all: multicellular organisms have arisen more than once, each time through an intricate dance of cooperation and conflict - The Evolutionary Front
  by Carl Zimmer
• In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace. . - Review: what's it all about, Alfred? - book review
  by Richard Milner
• Remembering ewe - In Sum - Sheep intelligence - Brief Article
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Museum events - Brief Article
• Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology. . - Review: what's it all about, Alfred? - book review
  by Richard Milner
• Little lizard - In Sum - sphaerodactylus ariasae - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Keeping up with the cones: chased by evolutionary biologists and pharmacological researchers, a tropical mollusk redefines "a snail's pace." - venomous cone snails
  by Aparna Screenivasan
• The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings From the Field. . - Review: what's it all about, Alfred? - book review
  by Richard Milner