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COLUMNS
Anecdotal Evidence • No Conception
Masquerading as sex hormones, chemicals ubiquitous in the environment could threaten our children's ability to reproduce
DIANA LUTZ
Works in Progress • The Shadow Boxer
To trap neutrinos from the sun, Ray Davis has spent three decades observing their ephemeral traces deep inside a mine. His results could shed light on the future of the universe.
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story · Monkey Business
Rebuffed in the courts, antievolutionists are seeking a new niche in the schools, one classroom at a time
EUGENIE C. SCOTT
FEATURES
No Assembly Required
Protein folding has perplexed generations of biochemists. Now the problem may be about to yield.
GEORGE D. ROSE
On Common Ground • Brothers Under the Hair
The uneasy kinship between human and ape
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Shards of Speech
The words you are reading are shrapnel from a five-thousand-year-old cultural explosion. Archaeologists and linguists now think they know where it erupted and who set it off.
GARY PAUL NABHAN
REVIEWS
Sorcerers' Apprentice
In the underworld of Aztec shamans, an anthropologist uncovers a viper's nest of feuds, poisons and gleeful murder
David Berreby
Books in Brief • Confessions of a Pyromantic
PLUS: Software disasters; vital statistics
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Headless Nails
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Brain cells with a sense of direction; brave new worlds; phaser beam; flip-top bugs; good news for oenophiles
Strange Matter
New Year's Resolutions in the Animal Kingdom
ROZ CHAST
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