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Chimpanzees and Chopsticks

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Ode to the otter

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Flower Power from Scent to Dissection

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Keep it in the nuclear family

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The joy of socks

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Wonderweed

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Return to Avalon

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Death foretold

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Are chimps chumps?

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Follow that food

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Triple trouble

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Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are by Barbara Katz Rothman

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