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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. But this narrative is collapsing. Here, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, while debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, offer a bold alternative explanation. Ryan and Jethá's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent,...
102) Spider monkeys
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"This book details the life and habits of spider monkeys."--
107) Webster
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkshares. Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1974, in a derelict Rhode Island mansion called Trevor Hall, a team of scientists taught American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. They affectionately christened their subject "Smithy." His official name was Webster. The Smithy Project ended in tragedy, some believing that a dark presence inside Trevor Hall had been disturbed. Webster was acquired by CSAM, a research lab in California run by the iron-fisted Manfried Teague. CSAM had...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The first program goes into Tanzania's Gombe National Park to observe the daily life of the chimpanzee clan Jane Goodall has known since the days of her research in the 1960s. The second program delves into the questions are chimps and other primates similar to us? How does their intelligence compare to our own? Answers are found both in the laboratory and in the wild. The program also goes to Central Zaire to observe pygmy chimps (bonobos) in the...