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• [Editorial] An Opportunity We Cannot WasteAuthor: Thomas R. Pickering
• [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site
Highlights from Science's online daily news site, ScienceNOW, this week include a device that lets researchers record brain activity while homing pigeons fly, more evidence of liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus, faster evolution in the tropics, and the oldest musical instruments ever found.
• [News Focus] Origins: On the Origin of The Nervous System
What did the first neurons and nervous systems look like, and what advantages did they confer on the animals that possessed them? In the seventh essay in Science's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Greg Miller discusses some tantalizing clues that scientists have recently gained about the evolutionary origins of nervous systems.
Author: Greg Miller
• [Book Review] Evolution: The Ecological Theater
The contributors explore such issues as the nature of species, how species are counted, limits on diversity, mechanisms of speciation and adaptation, and speciation rates.
Author: Anne E. Magurran
• [Book Review] Evolution: Green Life Through Time
An expansion and update of Taylor and Taylor's classic 1993 book, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a comprehensive survey of fossil plants and fungi.
Author: Jonathan P. Wilson
• [Report] Successful Conservation of a Threatened Maculinea Butterfly
Prediction of population dynamics in relation to habitat requirements has led to a conservation success in the UK.
Authors: J. A. Thomas, D. J. Simcox, R. T. Clarke
• [NEWS FOCUS] Death-Bed Prophecy
On the eve of its termination, SAGE KE takes a look at the future of research on aging.
• [PERSPECTIVE] Aging On the Job
As the population ages, will the workforce decline along with it?
British Medical Journal
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