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Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
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Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past.


 
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Not a Chimp - The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human
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Not a Chimp - The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us HumanNot a Chimp - The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair's breadth genetically!
 
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