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Monkey Portraits
Book Description:We share
about 98 percent of our DNA
with chimpanzees, our
closest biological cousins.
And never have the
similarities between simians
and humans been so amusingly
and brilliantly captured as
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Rainforest
Over the past 16 years Swiss
photographer Thomas Marent
has traveled all over the
world photographing
rainforests, from Peru and
Ecuador to New Zealand and
Papua New Guinea. Usually
traveling alone, Marent has
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A Primate's Memoir
Robert Sapolsky, the author
of Why Zebras Don't Get
Ulcers and other popular
books on animal and human
behavior, decided early in
life to become a
primatologist, volunteering
at the American Museum of
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Over the past twenty years,
paleontologists have made
tremendous fossil
discoveries, including
fossils that mark the growth
of whales, manatees, and
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
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