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Article: Chimps and Chumps : What monkeys don't tell us about man.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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In recent decades the average Homo sapiens' understanding of other species has grown impressively. For example, Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon simply would not have been funny before PBS started showing us countless documentaries on penguins, pandas, and polar bears. Interest in apes and monkeys, especially, has reached an unprecedented level, as seen in the opening of the $43 million Congo Gorilla Forest at the Bronx Zoo. Even Tarzan movies are now primatologically correct. As recently as 1984, the pretentious Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes could put extras in generic ape suits--half-chimpanzee, half-gorilla--and receive an Academy Award nomination for ...
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