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Our ancestors were like gorillas

From Electronic Book Review, a review of Frans de Waal's Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Three five-year-old chimpanzees have soundly defeated nine university students while playing a computer game that tests numerical memory skills. A look at how our ancestors were like gorillas: Fossils illustrate sex differences in growth and the costs of being a male. Whatever happened to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis? Human ancestors: more gatherers than hunters? Early humans may have dug potato-like foods with tools. Northwest Passage: A single population of prehistoric Siberians crossed the Bering Strait into Alaska and fanned out to North and South America, a new genetic analysis of living Native Americans suggests. A review of Great Moments in Greek Archeology. Archeologists in Rome have discovered an ancient grotto, lined with mosaics and seashells, deep under the Palatine Hill — they believe that it is the den of Romulus and Remus, the city's mythical founders. Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution, or were ancient incomes as unequal as they are today in poor pre-industrial societies?