Natural History

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Articles in Feb 2005 issue of Natural History

• Fearful symmetry
  by Ashok Prasad
• May I borrow your genome?
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Taming the River to let in the sea: Southern Louisiana is sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. The surprising culprit is overambitious flood control
  by Shea Penland
• Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Meltdown
• Clock or chaos? Planets orbiting distant stars suggest that the stability of our own solar system may be tenuous
  by Charles Liu
• The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Can dogs think? Maybe yes, and maybe no. What dogs do quite well, though, is make people think that dogs can think
  by Bruce Blumberg
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• The museum's deep freeze
• Howls and growls
  by Robert Anderson
• The Museum's 11th annual Family Party, held on Wednesday, October 20, 2004, drew more than 1,600 children and parents
• Museum President Ellen V. Futter with Constantine and Trustee Anne Sidamon-Eristoff at the annual Museum Ball on Wednesday, November 17, 2004
• Unintended consequences
  by Peter Brown
• In celebration of the opening of the Museum's landmark exhibition Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest, on view through July 10, 2005, representatives of Native American communities offered blessings and p
• Welcome to the Genome: a user's guide to the genetic past, present, and future
• The quartermaster's challenge
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Doctor Dolittle's dilemma
  by Francine Penny Patterson
• Why we count by tens
  by Stephan Reebs
• Undersea Valentine
  by Erin Espelie
• Look up!
  by Kate Scholberg
• A fine romance
  by Stephan Reebs
• Preflight meals
  by Stephan Reebs
• Speed limit: in Einstein's universe, time and distance may stretch like rubber, but the speed of light remains immutable
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A simple heart: its shape, in zebra fish, goes with the flow
  by Adam Summers
• Reader service
• An earthy bouquet
  by Avis Lang
• A Cow's Life: The Surprising History of Cattle and How the Black Angus Came to Be Home on the Range
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Northern exposure: can the planet-encircling boreal forest survive global warming and resource exploitation?
  by J. David Henry