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Article: Too Much Monkey Business.(What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People and their Genes)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- July 8, 2002
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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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Article: Monkey Business entries due Friday
Chicago Sun-Times;
January 24, 2006 ;
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... ... entries in quickly for the Sun-Times' Monkey Business stock-picking contest, 2006 edition ... to monkey@suntimes.com, with "Monkey Business" in the subject header. Regular ... no later than Friday. Send it to: Monkey Business, Chicago Sun-Times Business Section ...
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