Nov/Dec 1993 Table of Contents

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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Lost Lemurs of the Crocodile Caves
Deep inside a mountain on Madagascar, the bones of giant simian ancestors give dramatic testimony to the evolution of primates elwyn simons
ELWYN SIMONS

Works in Progress • Under the Boardwalk
Drilling into layers of ancient seafloor yields clues to global warming
LARRY KRUMENAKER

ESSAYS & COMMENT
2020 Vision
In little more than twenty-five years eight billion people will share our crowded planet. Science and technology will be their brightest hope.
JESSE H. AUSUBEL

FEATURES
Weak No More
Downplayed in most accounts of physics, the weak force makes the sun shine, cooks the elements of life in supernovas and may cause coils of DNA to turn right
DAVID B. CLINE

The Four Elements
A chemist and an artist interpret the essences of classical Greece
ROALD HOFFMANN AND VIVIAN TORRENCE

Cover Story • Of Muscles and Men
A seven-year anthropological study of the exotic culture of bodybuilding offers insights into the state of masculinity in America
ALAN M. KLEIN

REVIEWS
Which Came First?
Nature, nurture and the tangled history of human development
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

Books in Brief • Why Not Stop to Smell the Colors?
Plus: Robots to the planets; a cure for genetic illiteracy
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL

DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook

Peer Review
Letters from Readers

Quanta
Dissident scientists are again under fire in Moscow; blondes prefer (rich) gentlemen; ripples in the sand; alternative scientific press

Strange Matter
Lost Spacecraft Fails to Call Home
ROZ CHAST

Nov/Dec 1993

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