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Articles in Feb, 2002 issue of Natural History

• Art and history
  by Thomas Presbie
• Beetle juice
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Hairy noses: it's a small, sticky world out there
  by Adam Summers
• Dinosaur dreamer
  by Michael Novacek
• Little lizard
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Keeping up with the cones: chased by evolutionary biologists and pharmacological researchers, a tropical mollusk redefines "a snail's pace."
  by Aparna Screenivasan
• The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings From the Field
  by Richard Milner
• The great lemur mystery
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• The unsung ancients: very old trees aren't necessarily as rare-or as big-as you think
  by David W. Stahle
• Now playing: "Fly Morph-O-Genesis"
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Cool customers
  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
  by Geerat J. Vermeij
• The feeding is mutual
  by Judy Rice
• Remembering ewe
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Museum events
• Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
  by Richard Milner
• Survivors
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Mite life
  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
• Giving thanks and credit
  by Michael Wujtowicz
• Flowers of evil: potent chemicals lurk behind some of South America's most alluring blossoms
  by Rob Nicholson
• What has been will be again: newly forming stars and planets bejewel Orion's sword
  by Richard Panek
• Going with the flow: a Texas river winds through town and country
  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
  by Richard Milner
• Musical note
  by Laura Dillaway
• Grand opening: coming this spring to a woods near you: breaking buds
  by Bernd Heinrich
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• Erratum
• Remembrance of pathogens past: a physician ponders suggestive evidence that periodic infections are needed to foster a normal immune system
  by T.V. Rajan
• Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
  by Richard Milner