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Tim Clutton-Brock (page 28) has 

 earned two doctorates in zoology from 

 Cambridge University, where he teaches 

 animal ecology and heads the Large Ani- 

 mal Research Group. Ten years ago, while 

 attending a scientific meeting about ani- 

 mal demography, Clutton-Brock became 

 interested in studying the population cy- 

 cles of large mammals. Searching for "a 

 cyclical population where large numbers 

 of individuals could be marked and their 

 behavior, survival, and breeding success 

 monitored," he remembered reports about 

 the Soay sheep on Hirta, an island in the 

 Saint Kilda archipelago off the northwest 

 coast of Scotland, owned and managed by 

 the National Trust for Scotland and Scot- 

 tish Natural Heritage. When Clutton- 

 Brock and his colleague Steve Albon vis- 

 ited there, they were "astonished by the 

 ease with which information could be col- 

 lected." With funding from the Natural 



Environment Council and assistance from 

 the Royal Artillery on Saint Kilda, Clut- 

 ton-Brock returned the next year to begin a 

 systematic saidy. For more information, 

 he recommends Island Survivors: The 

 Ecology of the Soay Sheep of St. Kilda, by 

 R A. Jewell, C. Miber, and J. M. Boyd 

 (London: Athlone Press, 1974). 



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In the Panamanian rain forest, Jeanne 

 A. Zeh (page 36) stands on a fallen fig 

 tree. Ten years ago Zeh moved from Eng- 

 land to Arizona to pursue a career in pho- 

 tojournalism. Falling in love with the 

 Sonoran Desert, she changed direction and 

 in 1986 received an undergraduate degree 

 in ecology and evolutionary biology from 

 the University of Arizona. There she met 

 her husband, David W. Zeh (pictured here 

 with their son, Adrian), who was just fin- 

 ishing his Ph.D. at the time. Their lives — 

 and their work — have been closely en- 

 twined ever since. Staying at the 

 university, David began studies of desert 

 pseudoscorpions, which travel from one 

 rotting giant saguaro to another on the legs 



A veteran field researcher in Guatemala 

 and Mexico, June Nasli (page 46) has 

 long followed the career of Judas among 

 the Maya. Other themes that intrigue her 

 are the organization of work and the per- 

 sistence of cultural traditions in peasant 

 and industrial societies, as well as in the 

 cosmopolitan settings of the "post- 

 indusfiial" era. Nash, a Distinguished Pro- 

 fessor of Anthropology at the City College 

 and the Graduate Center of the City Uni- 

 versity of New York, has written In the 

 Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behav- 

 ior in a Maya Community (New Haven: 

 Yale University Press, 1970). She recom- 

 mends The Indian Christ, The Indian 

 King: The Historical Substrate of Maya 

 Myth and Ritual, by Victoria R. Bricker 

 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981) 

 and Comiendose la Fruta: metafores sexu- 

 ales e iniciaciones en Santiago Atitldn, by 

 Nathaniel Tarn and Martin Prechtel, in 

 Mesoamerica, vol. 19, pp. 73-82. 



of cactus flies — the insects whose mating 

 strategies were the subjects of Jeanne's 

 graduate research. For the past six years, 

 the Zehs have been with the Smithsonian 

 Tropical Research Institute in Panama, 

 where their sfiidies of the pseudoscorpion 

 that rides harlequin beetles have led them 

 from fieldwork on sexual selection to 

 DNA research on speciation and the ge- 

 netic causes of promiscuous behavior in 

 female arthropods. They recentiy returned 

 to the United States, where Jeanne is com- 

 pleting her graduate studies at Rice Uni- 

 versity and David is an assistant professor 

 in the biology department of the Univer- 

 sity of Houston. In their spare time, they 

 enjoy hiking, playing tennis, and snorkel- 

 ing in the Caribbean. 



