WNYC - I have to echo other people’s suggestions, and I very strongly recommend the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Atonement by Ian McEwan, sooo good, very surprising. Non-Fiction: The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond!! Fascinating and very
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Photo in the News: Earliest Known Human Ancestor
National Geographic - The new findings, published today in the journal Nature, paint a picture of a somewhat chimp-bodied human ancestor that arose shortly after the chimpanzee and human lineages diverged. Ted Chamberlain and Sean Markey See More Photos in the News
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Google Mini Finds Its Corporate Search Bearings
eWeek - Internet search giant will move into their markets, wielding its massive user base and general willingness to give away applications for free as very potent competitive weapons. But there is one area in which Google is more of an eager chimpanzee
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Science Now - For chimpanzees living next to the West African village of Bossou, Guinea, scoring papayas can also mean scoring a mate. That’s one conclusion of a 3-year study that followed Bossou’s adult males as they staged daring raids on crops and then used the
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Study: Men With ‘Cavemen’ Faces Most Attractive to Women
FOX News - In a past study, researchers found a similar facial pattern in chimpanzees , with males having relatively shorter and broader faces compared with females, controlling for body size. Men with “mini mugs” might have been most attractive to the opposite
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New ape species rewrites our evolutionary history
New Scientist - Until now, most palaeoanthropologists had thought the gorilla lineage diverged from that of humans and chimpanzees sometime between 6 and 8 million years ago, based on comparisons between the genomes of modern species. However, firm proof has been
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Slate - Attempts to raise chimpanzees in human environments and speak to them like humans had failed to produce chimpanzee speech, so by the 1960s researchers were turning to other methods. The late ’60s and ’70s were the heyday of cross-species

Artwork from across the nation
San Luis Obispo Tribune - Patricia Gould of Albuquerque, N.M., created a scenic quilt from fabric, and Carol Bellamy used one strand of wire to fashion her Wise Chimpanzee. Four-legged friends Animals make an appearance in this show, as the subject of about 10 paintings

DEA agents see Mexican cartels behind huge pot farms here
Dallas Observer - I started making the international chimpanzee jumping-jack signal for stop–waving my arms in an X and jumping up and down wildly. He slowed, smiled at me indulgently, then drove out into the intersection.