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Articles: Full Text

Spider-Eating Spiders
Robert R. Jackson and R. Stimson Wilcox

July-August 1998

Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration
Dominic W. Massaro and David G. Stork
May-June 1998

Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Kenneth Blum, John G. Cull, Eric R. Braverman and David E. Comings
March-April 1996

War and Chaos
Alvin M. Saperstein
January-February 1996

The Role of Intelligence in Modern Society
Earl Hunt
July-August 1995

Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution
Craig B. Stanford
May-June 1995

Self-Conscious Emotions
Michael Lewis

January-February 1995

Articles: Abstracts

The Nature of Emotions
Robert Plutchik

July-August 2001

Brain Plasticity and Recovery from Stroke
Nina P. Azari and Rudiger Seitz
September-October 2000

Depression and the Birth and Death of Brain Cells
Barry L. Jacobs, Henriette van Praag and Fred H. Gage
July-August 2000

Stingless-Bee Communication
James C. Nieh
September-October 1999

The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter
Christine R. Harris
July-August 1999

Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment
Lyudmila N. Trut
March-April 1999

Walking on Water
Robert B. Suter
March-April 1999

The Gestural Origins of Language
Michael C. Corballis
March-April 1999

Foraging by Seabirds on an Olfactory Landscape
Gabriella Nevitt
January-February 1999

Animal Contests as Evolutionary Games
Michael Mesterton-Gibbons and Eldridge S. Adams
July-August 1998

The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brian
Terrence W. Deacon

March-April 1998

Physiology of Helping in Florida Scrub-Jays
Stephan J. Schoech
January-February 1998

Rising Scores on Intelligence Tests
Ulric Neisser
September-October 1997

Caterpillars as Social Insects
James T. Costa

March-April 1997

The Nanchoc Tradition: The Beginnings of Andean Civilization
Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen and Patricia J. Netherly
January-February 1997

Communal Breeding in Burying Beetles
Michelle Pellissier Scott

July-August 1996

Shaping Brain Sexuality
Andrew H. Bass

July-August 1996

A Colossal Convergence
Linda Weilgart, Hal Whitehead and Katharine Payne
May-June 1996

The Spread of Early Farming in Europe
Peter Bogucki
May-June 1996

Prairie-Vole Partnerships
Lowell L. Getz and C. Sue Carter

March-April 1996

Why Do Bowerbirds Build Bowers?
Gerald Borgia
November-December 1995

Ancient African Iron Production
Peter R. Schmidt and S. Terry Childs

November-December 1995

The Attentive Brain
Stephen Grossberg

September-October 1995

Why Ravens Share
Bernd Heinrich and John Marzluff

July-August 1995

The Conceptual Abilities of Pigeons
Edward A. Wasserman

May-June 1995

Molecular Biological Clocks
Joseph S. Takahashi and Michelle Hoffman
March-April 1995

Making Decisions in the Family: An Evolutionary Perspective
Stephen T. Emlen, Peter H. Wrege and Natalie J. Demong
March-April 1995

The Development of Organization in an Ant Colony
Deborah M. Gordon
January-February 1995

Book Reviews

Creative Collaboration by Vera John-Steiner.
Reviewed by Arthur I. Miller
May-June 2001

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect by Paul R. Ehrlich.
Reviewed by Bobbi S. Low

May-June 2001

The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal.
Reviewed by William C. McGrew
May-June 2001

The Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis familiaris by Stephen Budiansky; Dogs Behaving Badly: An A-to-Z Guide to Understanding and Curing Behavioral Problems in Dogs by Nicholas Dodman; Companion Animals and Us: Exploring Relationships Between People and Pets edited by Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul and James A. Serpell.
Reviewed by Clive D. L. Wynne

March-April 2001

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Reviewed by Celia L. Moore

November-December 2000

What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math
Reviewed by Malcolm J. Sherman
July-August 1999

Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans
Reviewed by Valerie M. Chase
May-June 1999

Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley
Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery

July-August 1997

How the Self Controls Its Brain
May-June 1995

A View to a Death in the Morning
March-April 1995

Science Observer

The Armpit of the Avian World
Rebecca Sloan Slotnick

May-June 2001

Whetstone Gravestones
David Schoonmaker
November-December 1999

New Thinking on New Thinking
David Schneider
November-December 1999

Angry Adolescent Brains
Michael Szpir
July-August 1998

Which Way Did We Go?
Mike May

November-December 1997

Skin-deep Stress
Mike May

May-June 1996

Alcoholism, Personality and Dopamine
Michael Szpir
September-October 1995

Of Viruses and Mood Disorders
Michael Szpir
May-June 1995

A Lack of Sound Communication
By Laura Jean Penvenne

May-June 1995

Mind Viruses
by Michael Szpir
January-February 1995

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