NATURAL 
HISTORY 
Vol. 90. No. 6. June 1981 
American Museum of Natural History 
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2 Authors 
4 The Flood of Antievolutionism Laurie R. Godfrey 
"Scientific creationism may be poor science, but it is powerful politics." 
12 This View of Life Stephen Jay Gould 
Piltdown in Letters 
32 The Virtue of Forests, Virgin and Otherwise Hazel R Delcourt 
The rise and fall of forests may have a worldwide impact on climate. 
40 Spain’s Imperial Eagle Photographs by Jose Luis Gonzalez Grande 
A magnificent endangered bird raises its next generation. 
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44 Young Traders of Northern Nigeria Enid Schildkrout 
If Western customs of child education are followed, the economic 
workings of a culture will be undermined. 
54 Shakespeare — The Poet’s Worlds 5. Schoenbaum 
Town and country life permeated his works, as seen in a special 
Museum exhibition. 
60 Peaceable Peccaries John A. Byers 
With play and tolerance for young — plus a lot of grunts and rubs — these 
animals lead a most sociable life. 
70 Sky Reporter James W. Christy 
Searching for Dim Companions 
74 Celestial Events Thomas D. Nicholson 
76 Books in Review Boyce Rensberger 
The Wildest of All Wild Places 
82 Additional Reading 
84 At the American Museum 
Faces from the Past 
88 A Matter of Taste Raymond Sokolov 
The Lime That Failed 
Cover: The stork is one of the birds represented in French naturalist Pierre 
Belon’s L’Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux, published in 1555. This book 
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