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What Passes for a Monkey These Days

I have a question I would like to ask the world:

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What is this supposed to be? There is no monkey that looks like that. There is no animal on earth that looks like that. Why is this (basically) what everyone thinks of when they hear “monkey”?
As far as I can figure out, it looks sort [...]

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Review: The Jesuit and the Skull, Amir Aczel

I finished Amir Aczel’s The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man today, and I decided to write up a review/reflection sort of thing. I haven’t decided exactly which yet. I’ve thought about adding a feature like this before and I enjoyed doing it, so you might conceivably [...]

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Meet an Ancestor: Propliopithecus chirobates

So the whole weekly thing is pretty much out the window. I’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties for a while and I’ve had other matters to attend to/lacked motivation. But, you may unbate your breath, we have Meet an Ancestor entry number two: Propliopithecus chirobates.

A reconstruction of Propliopithecus
Woohoo, we finally got our super-obscure species that [...]