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Spring 2001
Vol. 53:2
Sunrise ignites the furry spikes of a cattail
stand. Dawn's heat quickens the life of the marsh, warming insect wings
enough to fly and rousing other residents to the coming day.
Photograph by
Michael Sewell.
Departments
Life on
the Edge
The Moving Finger
•Keith K. Howell
Horizons
Too Warm for the Maya
•Kathleen M. Wong
Habitats
Amargosa: Death Valley's Secret River
•Gordy Slack
Counterpoints
in Science
The Literate Freud
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Here
At The Academy
Fishing for Ants
•Maggie McKee
Letters
Threatened Oak Ecosystems
China Credits
Reviews
•Suzanne Ubick
on Promiscuity
•Jay Withgott
on Sibley and Kaufman birding guides
•Editors' Recommendations
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Features
The Female Line:
an interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has shown that primate females play
a critical role in choosing the fathers of their offspring and in the
continuing evolution of their species.
•Blake Edgar
Panspermia
As evidence that life may hitchhike through the universe on comets
and asteroids accumulates, astrobiologists theorize that life on Earth
may have come from outer space.
•Jay Withgott
At Home in the
Natural World
Naturalist's Almanac
What to Look for this Spring
•Liese Greensfelder
Skyguide
Mars Aligned
•Bing F. Quock
Wild
Lives
Frozen Frogs
•Pamela Turner
Trail
Less Traveled
It's a Vertical Life
•Sharif Taha
Not available
online:
Science Track
The Circle in the Mission
•Helen Wagenvoord
Captivating Exposures
Close-up photographs of the working parts of flowers reveal the intricate
ways in which plants disperse their pollen.
•Margaret Ely
From Birds in the Hand to Birds
in the Bush
The survival of Hawaii's native birds hangs by a precarious thread. At
the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center on Hawaii, eight endangered species
are hatched and reared in captivity, then released back into the wild.
•Deborah Knight
The Tragedy of the Carp
As the water in a restored 90-acre wetland north of San Francisco subsides
in spring, fish are stranded, scavengers feast, and nature follows its
inevitable course.
•Kenneth Brower
•Photography by Michael Sewell
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