Natural History

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Articles in Oct 2006 issue of Natural History

• My, what keen eyes you had!
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels around the World
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• High life cornucopia
  by Michael A. Mares
• Upcoming special exhibition: Gold
• Before appellation controllee
  by Stephan Reebs
• Darwinism and Its Discontents
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Out on a limb
  by Hans Berliner
• Winning Miss Muffet's heart
  by Rebecca Rupp
• Buzzing off
  by Stephan Reebs
• My Three Suns: how many planets survive in multiple-star systems?
  by Charles Liu
• A rash of consequences
  by Stephan Reebs
• Go west, young primate
  by Ciara Curtin
• AMNH expeditions
• Nice threads: Orb weaver spiders can draw on a wide selection of silks that span a huge range of stretchiness and strength
  by Adam Summers
• Jungle smarts
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Ian Felstead: Assistant Director, Business and Operations, AMNH Expeditions
• Blues' revival: can a change in diet—and a little laboratory assistance—help a Florida butterfly escape extinction?
  by Jaret C. Daniels
• Lucky break
  by Edyta Zielinska
• Life and death in a pitcher: carnivorous plants that seem to employ a simple dunk-and-drown tactic for capturing prey turn out to have more up their leaves
  by Jonathan Moran
• A night at the museum: New! family sleep-overs
• Uphill battle
  by Stephan Reebs
• Museum events
• The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Blast off!
  by Erin Espelie
• As time goes by: comparing, the human experience of time with the fundamental tempos of nature yields a startling, new outlook on our place in the universe
  by Robert L. Jaffe
• Ripping Earth
  by Robert Anderson
• The other Kinsey
  by Catherine Johnson-Roehr
• Sociable killers: new studies of the white shark show that its social life and hunting strategies are surprisingly complex
  by R. Aidan Martin
• The sky in October
  by Joe Rao
• Feast or famine
  by Stephan Reebs
• Broken pieces of yesterday's life: traces of lifestyles abandoned millions of years ago are still decipherable in "fossil genes" retained in modern DNA
  by Sean B. Carroll
• Snakes from the sea?
  by Michael W. Caldwell
• The Buttery Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter: opens October 7, 2006