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Vol. 103, No. 5, May 1994 



Cover: Poppies bloom in the Judean desert, where red flowers compete for the 

 attentions of beetles. Story on page 52. Photograph by Allen Rokach. 



Letters 



This View of Life Stephen Jay Gould 

 Hooking Leviathan by Its Past 



Nature's Infinite Book 



Jared Diamond 



Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes 



Science Lite Roger l weisch 



Life Styles of the Rich and Famous 



Tales from a Peruvian Crypt 



Walter Alva and Christopher B. Donnan 



Only a step ahead of looters, archeologists find the 



richest grave ever excavated scientifically in our hemisphere. 



"Dear Enemy" Notes Renee Godard and Haven Wiley 



Why does the hooded warbler spend more than half of the moming singing? 



Night Watch on the Amazon Patricia ciwppie Wright 



South America 's owl monkey is a bit of a moonlighter 



Of Bedouins, Beetles, and Blooms BemdHeinrich 



Both insects and people see red in a desert near Jerusalem, 

 but not for the reasons you might suspect. 



At the American Museum of Natural History 

 The Living Museum Edwin h. Coiben 



Four Giants of Paleontology 



This Land Robert H. Mohlenbrock 

 Bonaventure Island, Quebec 



Celestial Events Gaiis. cieere 



Ring of Fire 



Reviews Joim r. Aiden 



Old Foods in the New World 



The Natural Moment 



Photograph by Barrie Wilkins 

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