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Threescore and ten.: Our exceptionally long life span may have influenced the evolution of how we learn and think.
págs. 24-35
Homo Grammaticus: Mathematics has a say about how human language evolved.
págs. 36-44
I Have Landed: In the final essay of this twenty-seven-year series, the author reflects on continuity-from family history to the branching lineage of terrestrial life.
págs. 46-58
A Cosmic Muse: At the dawn of the new century, an astrophysicist looks at popular culture and detects signs that the arts and sciences are headed toward fusion.
págs. 60-60
A Hundred Years of Missing Links: So many fossil hominids have been discovered since 1900 that they now constitute an embarrassment of riches.
págs. 63-65
Reading Nature's Tea Leaves: Our ideas about nature reveal as much about ourselves and our cultures as they do about the world around us.
págs. 66-71
The Laughing Species: A familiar vocal act reveals its evolutionary past.
págs. 72-77
Common Ground: Studies of the social and emotional lives of forest apes reveal the evolutionary roots of human nature.
págs. 78-83
Birth of the Arts: What lies behind the human urge to elaborate, to embellish, to make the ordinary extraordinary?.
págs. 84-91
Photographers as naturalists: Wildlife photography came into its own during Natural History's first century. To celebrate our centennial, we offer a sampling of the finest.
págs. 92-112
págs. 118-118
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