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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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The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
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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:
Lucys Legacy (1999)
Lemur behavior (1966)
The evolution of primate behavior (1972)
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