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Spread Of Endogenous Retrovirus K Is Similar In The DNA Of Humans And Rhesus Monkeys (October 12, 2007) -- The population dynamics of complete copies of primate endogenous retrovirus family K in the genomes of humans, chimpanzee and rhesus monkey have revealed a surprising pattern. Human ERV-K had a ... > full story

Chimpanzees, Unlike Humans, Apply Economic Principles To Ultimatum Game (October 7, 2007) -- When given the ultimatum game, chimpanzees, unlike humans, conform to traditional economic models. Unlike humans, chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones. In ... > full story

Primate Sperm Competition: Speed Matters (September 27, 2007) -- Sperm cells from the more promiscuous chimpanzee and rhesus macaque species swim much faster and with much greater force than those of humans and gorillas, species where individual females mate ... > full story

New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit' (September 25, 2007) -- Researchers have completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the "hobbit," a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island ... > full story

Wild Male Chimpanzees Use Stolen Food To Win Over The Opposite Sex (September 14, 2007) -- They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and the same could be said for female chimpanzees. Researchers studying wild chimps in West Africa have discovered that males pinch ... > full story

Extinction Crisis Escalates: Red List Shows Apes, Corals, Vultures, Dolphins All In Danger (September 13, 2007) -- Life on Earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action is taken, according to the 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. There are now 41,415 species on the IUCN Red ... > full story

Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel? (September 12, 2007) -- The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests. They proposes that if early humans lacked an ... > full story

Color Night Vision In The Aye-Aye, A Most Unusual Primate (September 12, 2007) -- A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led scientists to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world's most rare and bizarre-looking primates. They have ... > full story

Marburg Virus Identified In A Species Of Fruit Bat (September 11, 2007) -- The Marburg virus, like its fearsome cousin Ebola, belongs to the Filoviridae family. It carries the name of the German town where it was first detected in 1967, after a mysterious epidemic had hit ... > full story

Primates Expect Others To Act Rationally (September 10, 2007) -- Researchers have found that when understanding behavior, primates assume rationality and make inferences based on environmental restraints. The researchers studied over 120 primates from the three ... > full story

Higher Social Skills Are Distinctly Human, Toddler And Ape Study Reveals (September 7, 2007) -- Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, ... > full story

Bonobo Handshake: What Makes Our Chimp-like Cousins So Cooperative? (September 4, 2007) -- What's it like to work with relatives who think sex is like a handshake, who organize orgies with the neighbors, and firmly believe females should be in charge of everything? On September 11, a group ... > full story

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The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the ... > read more

In Ruins
In this elegant, provocative book, the brilliant young art-historian Christopher Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape ... > read more

Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research: Diseases (American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine)
This volume and its companion Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research: Biology and Management represent the most comprehensive publications of their type on nonhuman primates. This volume addresses ... > read more

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but ... > read more

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Jim Collins Answers the Social Sector with a Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. 30-50% of those who bought Good to Great work in the Social Sector. This monograph is a response to questions ... > read more

Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries
In a global economy, it is crucial for business people to be sensitive to cultural differences. And although the best reason for doing so may be ethical, it's great for business as well! This is an ... > read more

The Complete World of Human Evolution
A compelling, authoritative, and superbly illustrated account of the rise and eventual domination of our species.Human domination of the earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how ... > read more

6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body: Look Fit and Feel Fabulous with the Secrets of the Stars
From a top Hollywood trainer–how to have a great body like a Hollywood star Now everyone can have a fantastic new body like a Hollywood star–shapely legs, a great butt, strong and lean ... > read more

David and Solomon : In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
The exploding number of discoveries of biblical archaeology -- artifacts and texts found at hundreds of sites populated in the ancient Near East -- have shed powerful beams of light on the characters ... > read more

The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution : The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week
Join the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution!In The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, authors of the three-million-copy bestseller Protein Power team up with leading fitness expert Fred Hahn to revolutionize ... > read more