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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Space Makes Strange Bedfellows
For studies of how the body responds to space travel, flat on your back is the next-best thing to being there
MARY K. MILLER
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Murder Most Foul
A forensic anthropologist musters all the resources of his science to finger those responsible for war crimes
CLYDE SNOW
FEATURES: SPECIAL ISSUE ON ORIGINS
Cold Start
The first life may have evolved out of a chilled organic soup that brewed under a thick layer of ice
JEFFREY L. BADA
Roots
Ancient hair, and the DNA embedded in it, might reveal when and how the Americas were settled‹but not if some Native Americans can help it
ROBSON BONNICHSEN AND ALAN L. SCHNEIDER
On Common Ground • Two Sides to Every Issue
The messages of the dead, encoded in a building stone
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Cover Story • Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Like "universal acid," evolutionary theory eats through every other explanation for life, mind and culture
DANIEL C. DENNETT
REVIEWS
Our Bodies, Our Science
Challenging the breast cancer research establishment, victims now ask for a voice in the war against the disease
CHARLES WEIJER
Books in Brief • Final Thoughts
PLUS: German wartime missile program; a natural history of chocolate
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Who, Where, When, What and Why?
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Linguistic analysis of DNA; acoustic daylight; electromagnetic fields and health; fire ant invasion
Strange Matter
The Rites of Spring
ROZ CHAST
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