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Summer 1998
Vol. 51:3
The seductive traps of tropical pitcher plants native
to Southeast Asia. Their primary prey is ants, but over 150 other insect
species can survive safely within the pitchers.
Photograph by
jonathan chester
Departments
Life on
the Edge
Passive Aggressors
•Keith Howell
Horizons
California's First Tourists?
Muting Neandertal Music
•Blake Edgar
Habitats
Rights (and Wrongs) of Cats
•Gordy Slack
Reviews
•Blake Edgar
on Water's Edge
•Editors' Recommendations
Counterpoints
in Science
Poisonous People
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Here
at the Academy
Thought for Food
•Blake Edgar
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Features
Desert Maven, Desert
Maverick
Writer Mary Austin immortalized the California desert in The Land
of Little Rain and fought to perserve the Owens Valley.
•Elizabeth Rush
Between
Extinctions
Niles Eldredge, father of the theory of punctuated equilibrium, discusses
past and present extinctions, biological diversity, cultural evolution,
and creationism.
Faith
in the Universe
Astronomers and physicists explain how they reconcile scientific knowledge
with a belief in a Supreme Being—or not.
•Gordy
Slack
At Home
in the
Natural World
Skyguide
Planetary Pas de Deux
•Bing F. Quock
Naturalist's
Almanac
What to See This Summer
•Marilyn Stevenson
Not
available online:
Eye of
Newt, Skin of Toad,
Bile of Pufferfish
Tetrodotoxin, one of nature's
deadliest and most mysterious poisons, is found in an astonishing array
of species. Weirdest of all, however, may be how it afects humans
•William Haugen Light
A Trail Less
Traveled
Riverwalking on the Garcia
•William Poole
A Family for Everyone
On closely observing field
guides.
•Kathleen Dean Moore
Letter from the Field
Elliott Key's endangered
butterflies.
•Andrei Sourakov
Wild Lives
Giant Kangaroo Rat
•Moose Peterson
Letters
to the Editor
Forestphiles
BLM as Guardian
The Blue and the Gray |
