Natural History

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Articles in June 2002 issue of Natural History

• Woolly ancestry
  by Stephan Reebs
• The ice above, the fire below: Iceland is still being shaped by the geological interaction of opposites
  by Robert S. White
• Trained eye
  by Erin M. Espelie
• Sticky situation
  by Stephan Reebs
• A beautiful hand: throug his scientifically detailed canvases, Frederic E. Church transported the Tropics to the temperate zone
  by Rob Nicholson
• Cultivated wilderness
  by Elizabeth S. Eustis
• Old partners
  by Stephan Reebs
• Avian quick-change artists: exemplars of rapid adaptation, house finches show that mothers know best
  by Alexander V. Badyaev
• Fast forward
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Delayed action
  by Stephan Reebs
• Hitchin' a ride: scuds, shrimps, and sponges are among the creatures that cling to the horseshoe crab
  by Dave Grant
• Of mice and men
  by Jeff Laite
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• A pulsar on the move: astronomers resolve a long-standing mystery—only to reveal a new puzzle
  by Charles Liu
• Joist gigantism
  by Rick Berger
• Cheaters and chumps: game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play
  by Robert M. Sapolsky
• The sky in June
  by Joe Rao
• Picture imperfect
  by David L. Thompson
• Hollywood nights: when it comes to astronomical accuracy in the movies, nobody's getting any Oscars
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A weighty matter: at nearly seven tons, Tyrannosaurus rex would have simply been too heavy to run fast
  by Adam Summers
• ID vs. evolution, continued
• The rise and fall of the nasal empire: we have 900 genes for smelling, but almost two-thirds of them are broken - The Evolutionary Front
  by Carl Zimmer
• So near and yet so far: yes, we're primates. But how much does that tell us about our behavior?
  by Meredith F. Small
• Cold storage: the Ambrose Monell Collection of tissue samples—held in nitrogen-cooled freezer vats in the Museum's basement—promises to be a world-class library of molecular biodiversity
  by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• Jamming cicadas: after years underground, these insects emerge on cue and sing in concert
  by Peter J. Marchand
• All ears and eyes
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Museum events in June
• Where forests meet: the Black Hills are a crossroads of vegetation
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Bookshelf