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We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

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If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Alison Jolly

Alison Jolly

Born: May 9, 1937
Died: February 6, 2014 (aged 76)
Bio: Alison Jolly was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology.
Known for:
  1. Lucys Legacy (1999)
  2. Lemur behavior (1966)
  3. The evolution of primate behavior (1972)

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