Natural History

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Articles in Feb 2006 issue of Natural History

• God of the gaps
  by Jack V. Zamboni
• Delayed gratification
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• The origins of life: have too many cooks spoiled the prebiotic soup?
  by Antonio Lazcano
• Stunt double
  by Denton S. Ebel
• Whale story
  by Robert Byers
• The Earth gets clocked
  by Graciela Flores
• The butterfly bird: a legendary hummingbird draws bird-watchers to the Peruvian Andes, but the details of its biology and ecology remain largely unknown
  by Noam Shany
• Fyi reader service
• Identification Day
• Life's origins
  by Charles B. Koons
• Too clever by half
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• A shell with a viewer: it takes a cool blood to feel the earth's warmth
  by Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
• Fact and theory
  by Daniel Jacobs
• Shoe fly: to walk on walls and ceilings, your feet have to stick, but they have to get unstuck, too
  by Adams Summers
• "Irreducible complexity"
  by Phillip Garding
• Darwin
• Night flight
  by Erin Espelie
• Insulting and unfair
  by David R. Gee
• Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Cosmic cosmetics: astronomers have found lots of nail-polish remover and sunless tanning lotion in space
  by Charles Liu
• Genes for jaws
  by Stephan Reebs
• Melodious mice
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Unleash the wasps
  by Rebecca Kessler
• In the Company of Crows and Ravens
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• Christie Stephenson Assistant Director for Digital and Special Collections Research Library
• Safe house
  by Mary Knight
• Fly on the wall
  by Peter Brown
• March of the weevils: how a Mexican beetle launched a hundred-year attack on United States cotton
  by Robert W. Jones
• Fossil by proxy
  by Stephan Reebs
• Germ warfare
  by Graciela Flores
• Birth of the spud
  by Stephan Reebs
• Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Exoplanet Earth: what would Earth look like from deep space if inquisitive aliens were scanning for planets?
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Islands generate bird biodiversity
• Stupid design
  by Bill Schubert
• Wave files
  by Robert Anderson
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Going with the flow: an underground stream links two scenic spots
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• African-American History Month