Article: Too Much Monkey Business.(What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People and their Genes)

 
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 98% CHIMPANZEE: Apes, People, and Their Genes. 
By Jonathan Marks. California. 312 pp. $27.50. 

I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolution and the politics of science. My friends and I discussed our shock--Gould had famously "beat" cancer some years back--and shared charming and ridiculous Gould information, like his funny-voice contributions to The Simpsons. Postings on leftist listservs noted that Gould's fulsome New York Times obituary, which rattled on about his "controversial" theory of punctuated ...

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