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Who's your daddy? The Great Apes are among the most popular animals in most zoos. Their actions, facial expressions, and family life remind us so much of ourselves. Have you ever wondered, though, how we might look to them?
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A modern, statistically based system of classification called cladistics reveals a surprising possibility: Not only are humans apes, but we are more closely related to some apes--namely the chimpanzees--than the chimpanzees are to orangutans or gorillas. In other words, the chimpanzees' closest living relatives are--us! A gorilla, looking past our culture and technology, might see us humans as just another type of chimpanzee.
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American Museum of Natural History's dinosaurs are back on display.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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Research results from National Autonomous University update knowledge of science.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
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Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction--Comment on Smith (2000) / Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction--Reply to Smith (2000)
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Evolutionary systems: modelling organisational innovation.
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Plant systematics in the age of genomics
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