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Science Future for February 28, 2009
Web edition: February 27, 2009
Print edition: February 28, 2009; Vol.175 #5 (p. 4)
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March 6
“Sacred Waters: India’s Great Kumbha Mela Pilgrimage” opens at The Field Museum in Chicago. Learn more at www.fieldmuseum.org
April 24
Arbor Day will be celebrated across the United States.
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White eyes disperse to form new species faster than any other known birds. These “great speciators” diversify into between 1.95 and 2.63 species per million years, often failing to maintain gene flow across water gaps as narrow as a couple of kilometers, a team reports in the Feb. 10 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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