July 1st, 2009
Outsmarted: humans and apes share many genes, but the way we use them is ‘like swapping a rifle for a machine gun’ Photo: FOX/GETTY About 50 years ago, something happened that radically changed our ideas about what it meant to be human. A young
‘Bones’ star seeks ape sanctuary support - United Press International
WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) — A TV actress who plays a forensic anthropologist asked U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., to support a bill that would phase out some experiments on chimpanzees. The Great Ape Protection Act, introduced recently in the
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June 27th, 2009
Management doesn’t work. It is ill-conceived and badly carried out. It is, literally, inhuman. We are all wasting our time. This is the basic thrust of Charles Jacobs’ new book, “Management Rewired.” Inspired by the latest discoveries of
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June 21st, 2009
Russell s nihilistic characterization of Homo sapiens injects some much-needed perspective into a world in which our species of intellectually evolved primates suffers a collective delusion of grandeur. In Dreams and Facts, Russell further
Fatherly instincts different in animal kingdom - Greensboro News & Record
The dad bond, at least among mammals, is probably strongest in primates, said Terry Webb, mammal curator at the N.C. Zoo. And among primates, gorillas probably bear the closest resemblance to their human counterparts. A silverback male, his
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