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View ArticleDo Plants Have Brains?
Some biologists argue that “neurobiology” has been too narrowly definedRob DeSalleIan TattersallMimosaAdapted with permission from The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs, by Rob DeSalle and Ian...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Bodysnatching
Astley Cooper (1768–1841), an English surgeon and anatomist, is remembered for his contributions to vascular surgery and other specialties.Druin Burchbody snatcher comboBorn body and soul into the...
View ArticleReturn to Gujarat
The rewards of sharing picturesEllen KaplowitzwomanAt one time or another we all experience a desire to return to a special place. Maybe it is because we remember the stunning scenery, or a colorful...
View ArticleFate of the Crocker Land Expedition
One hundred years ago, the search began for a mysterious Arctic territory.Stanley A. Freeddogsled teamIn June 1906, Commander Robert Peary, a veteran polar explorer, reported sighting land across the...
View ArticleTracking Tsunami Flotsam
Wind and currents determine where debris from the Japanese catastrophe has floated.Marcus Eriksencar flotsamOn June 10, 2012, fifteen months after the tsunami of March 11 that ravaged the east coast of...
View ArticleRestoration of the Alewife
A fish that links marine and freshwater environments is finding allies in Maine.Clinton B. TownsendalewifeBefore 1492, there was probably not a waterway in eastern North America that did not support...
View ArticleThe Murúa Code
Handmade textiles not only represent an ancient tradition, but remain a part of everyday life in many Andean cultures.Lynn A. MeischPeruvian female weaverSouth America, with its geographic extremes—the...
View ArticleBad Medicine
The sale of endangered wildlife products is a travesty, but not every rhino horn is what it seems.Karl Ammanntwo white rhinosA version of this article appeared in the July-September issue of Swara, the...
View ArticleInto the Blue Serengeti
The migrations of Pacific predators resemble those of African wildlife.Cheryl Lyn DybasBlue whale"The dugout canoe does not know the depth of the water” (Umubindi ushira uvimye). So say the Hangaza, a...
View ArticleDark Moon Traveler
The saw-whet owl, among the smallest owls in North America, once thought a year-round resident of northern territories, now migrates as far south as Virginia.Cheryl Lyn Dybassaw-whet owlIt’s 3 a.m. in...
View ArticleGreat Adaptations
Research on a versatile bacterium provides insight into multicellular microbial life and tackling infections as deadly as those associated with cystic fibrosis.David M. GarciaTwo colonies of P....
View ArticleAnother Tenderfoot
Reflections on lessons learned by another young scientist eighty years ago.Katherine Faust StryjewskiKatherine Faust StryjewskiIn 2011, as I prepared for my first expedition to Papua New Guinea, I...
View ArticleRemembering Stephen Jay Gould
Human evolution was not a special case of anything.Ian TattersallStephen Jay Gould with giraffeFor long-time readers of Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould needs no introduction. His column, “This View...
View ArticleBonobo Bliss
Evidence that doing good feels good.Frans de Waalsmiling boboboExcerpted from The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates, by Frans de Waal. Copyright © 2013 by Frans de Waal....
View ArticleBlowing in the Wind
An archaeologist ponders the fate of Hoover DamDaniel J. LenihanLake Mead near Hoover DamA stiffening breeze decapitates the waves, filling the air with white spray. The boxy hull of Forever Earth...
View ArticleReturn of the Wolf God
Recently identified subspecies ranges farther than first imagined: across Africa.Cheryl Lyn DybasEthiopian stone village compoundWoollff! shouted Lajos Nemeth-Boka, lead naturalist and tour leader at...
View ArticleSpit and Image
The wonderful world of mucusDruin Burchsnotty-nosed babyAs my one-year-old proudly wiped her own nose, the wonder and beauty of mucus impressed themselves upon me. Specifically, on my shirt. My...
View ArticleThree Sides of Everest
There's more to a mountain than the summit.Alton C. ByersMount EverestReprinted by arrangement from the book The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World’s Tallest Peak by Conrad...
View ArticleShaken City
Two years after its big quake, Christchurch is still trembling.Simon D. Pollardtotaled buildingMāori, New Zealand's indigenous Polynesian people, have a traditional explanation for earthquakes. When...
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