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Articles in July-August, 1998 issue of Natural History

• Why menopause?
  by Craig Packer
• The doctor is in
  by Joe Rao
• Road toll
  by David Wilkie
• Thirteen ways of looking at a hedgehog
  by Chris Reiter
• An Affair with Africa: Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent
  by Arthur V. Evans
• High roads to oblivion
  by Jay R. Malcolm
• On embroyos and ancestors: Fossils of tiny embryos 570 million years old may well be the greatest paleontological discovery of our time
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Fossil lake
  by Lance Grande
• Of frogs & ponds & peccaries
  by Clauda Gascon
• The emancipation of Nicodemus
  by William H. Wiggins, Jr.
• Sexual attitudes at Northern latitudes
  by Richard B. Lanctot
• Survival of the ant followers
  by Philip C. Stouffer
• Fragments of the forest
  by William F. Laurence
• Things people say: The only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier
  by Neil de Grasse Tyson
• In the presence of elephants
  by Katharine Payne
• Birds in mixed company
  by Richard Bierregaard
• Rise of the supertramp beetles
  by Raphael K. Didham
• The humpbacks of Antongil Bay
  by Howard Rosenbaum