What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their GenesMarks presents the field of molecular anthropology—a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics—as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This iconoclastic, witty, and extremely readable book illuminates the deep background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is, and what passes for it, in modern society. |
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Contents
| 32 | |
HOW PEOPLE DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER | 51 |
THE MEANING OF HUMAN VARIATION | 72 |
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS | 100 |
FOLK HEREDITY | 128 |
HUMAN NATURE | 159 |
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR APES? | 180 |
A HUMAN GENE MUSEUM? | 198 |
IDENTITY AND DESCENT | 219 |
IS BLOOD REALLY SO DAMN THICK? | 242 |
SCIENCE RELIGION AND WORLDVIEW | 266 |
| 289 | |
| 303 | |
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Page 19 - His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke ; and it is of a dunnish colour. " He differeth not from a man but in his legs ; for they have no calfe.
Page 19 - The People of the Countrie, when they travaile in the Woods, make fires where they sleepe in the night; and in the morning, when they are gone, the Pongoes will come and sit about the fire, til it goeth out: for they have no understanding to lay the wood together.
Page 19 - ... roaring away from them. Those Pongoes are never taken alive because they are so strong, that ten men cannot hold one of them ; but *yet they take many of their young ones with poisoned arrowes.
Page 19 - Pongo hangeth on his mother's belly with his hands fast clasped about her, so that when the countrie people kill any of the females they take the young one, which hangeth fast upon his mother. " When they die among themselves, they cover the dead with great heaps of boughs and wood, which is commonly found in the forest.
Bibliographic information
| Title | What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes |
| Author | Jonathan Marks |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0520930762, 9780520930766 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Life Sciences / Evolution |
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