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QH431 .T296 2009eb
QH431
.
T296
2009eb
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0191567353
9780191567353
0199227780
9780199227785
b715329
Not a chimp :
[Book]
the hunt to find the genes that make us human /
Jeremy Taylor.
Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-333) and index.
Illustration List; List of Abbreviations; 1 From Distant Cousins to Close Family; 2 The Language Gene That Wasn't; 3 Brain-builders; 4 The Riddle of the 1.6%; 5 Less is More; 6 More Is Better; 7 Aladdin's Cave; 8 Povinelli's Gauntlet; 9 Clever Corvids; 10 Inside The Brain -- The Devil is in the Detail; 11 The Ape That Domesticated Itself; 12 Chimps Aren't Us; Glossary; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
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Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair's breadth genetically! To a rather older tradition of anthropomorphizing chimps, trying to get them to speak, dressing them up for 'tea parties', was added the stamp of genetic confirmation. It.
Not a chimp.
9780199227785
Animal behavior, Popular works.
DNA, Popular works.
Human evolution, Popular works.
Human genetics, Popular works.
Animal behavior.
DNA.
Human evolution.
Human genetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Physical.
SOC-- 002020
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QH431
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T296
2009eb
Taylor, Jeremy,1946-
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