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Spring 2005
Vol. 58:2
Army
ants create living nests by linking their legs together. From the
ANTS exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences.
Photograph by Dong Lin.
Departments
Life
on the Edge
Worlds Apart
•Keith K. Howell
Habitats
Nature in a Bottle
•Gordy Slack
Counterpoints
in Science
The Spin on Aspirin
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Letters
to the Editor
Chaparral
Elk in Yellowstone
Here
At The Academy
Academy's Worldwide Horizons
•Ester Chang
Reviews
•Adrian Barnett
on Birds' Names
•Christine Colasurdo
on Gender Diversity
•Pamela Turner
on Parallel Evolution
•Nina Jablonski
on Early Monkeys
•Elizabeth Rush
on Environmental Writers
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At Home
in the
Natural World
Skyguide
Fireworks on a Comet
•Bing F. Quock
Naturalist's
Almanac
What to look for this Spring
•David Lukas
Not
available online:
Creationists
in California
The conflict between evolution and creationism isn't just waged
in the hinterlands.
•Eugenie C. Scott
The Rat Path
Polynesians settled the Pacific with pigs, chickens, and rats in
tow. Now rodent DNA is helping scientists retrace those historic
voyages.
•Lisa Matisoo-Smith
Living on Bristlecone Time
Weathered but almost indestructible, the world's oldest trees have
fine-tuned radiocarbon dating and rewritten ancient history.
•Susan McCarthy
Ready, Set, Migrate!
The Big Bird Race from Tasmania to South Africa has turned albatross
protection into a money-raising sport.
•Shelly Farr Biswell
Albino
Redwood
Now and again, a ghostly redwood sprouts in the forest.
•Judie Marks
In Pursuit Of Science
Desert Defender Mark Jorgensen
•Debby Knight
The Goldfinch and the Hawk
When songbirds turn to face their avian tormentors.
•Jean C. Fisher and Peter Pyle
Wild Lives
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
•David Lukas
...Then There was Light
Looking for the universe's first glimmers of light.
•Robert Adler
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