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March-April 2010 Volume 98, Number 2

The accordionlike blubber on a fin whale's underside extends from mouth to bellybutton. ...

FEATURE ARTICLES

The Ultimate Mouthful: Lunge Feeding in Rorqual Whales

The ocean’s depths have long shrouded the biomechanics behind the largest marine mammals’ eating methods, but new devices have brought them to light

The Race for Real-time Photorealism *

Henrik Wann Jensen, Tomas Akenine-Möller

The coevolution of algorithms and hardware is bringing us closer to interactive computer graphics indistinguishable from reality

Gene-Culture Coevolution and Human Diet *

Timo Vuorisalo, Olli Arjamaa

Rather than acting in isolation, biology and culture have interacted to develop the diet we have today

Finding Alzheimer's Disease *

Ralf Dahm

How interest in one patient’s suffering and confidence in the physical basis of mental illness led a German doctor to discover the devastating disorder

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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF

Fellow Feeling

Joan Silk

A review of The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, by Frans de Waal. De Waal sets out to demonstrate that empathy is "a biologically grounded capacity that all people share"

See all book reviews for this issue.