Natural History

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Articles in Oct 1997 issue of Natural History

• Concrete Jungle: A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems
  by Mark A. Norell
• The crying game
  by Ronald G. Barr
• The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
  by Matt Cartmill
• When to wean
  by Katherine A. Dettwyler
• Who's seen Noah's ark?
  by Christopher P. Toumey
• Bedtime story
  by James J. McKenna
• A Tale of Two Worksites
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Where ancient stories guide children home
  by Janice Rosenberg
• Best birding: hot spots in the continental U.S
  by Stephen C. Quinn
• When venison isn't so rare
  by Robb Walsh
• Portugal's rescued rock art
  by William K. Barnett
• Thisland/South Dakota: mammoth site
  by Larry D. Agenbroad
• Virus hunter
  by Craig Packer
• Tales of the occultation
  by Joe Rao
• Our babies, ourselves
  by Meredith F. Small
• The search for planets
  by Neil de Grasse Tyson
• An infant's three Rs
  by Sara Harkness
• Doctor's orders
  by Edward Z. Tronick