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    Is War Inevitable?

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    1 Is War Inevitable? The modern human mind has sought to present findings and evidence that would lead to some form of an indication or conclusion regarding the inevitability of war through the multifarious fields of science and technology; anthropology; political science; economics; psychology (both humanist and evolutionary); and cultural studies. The general perception for most people – gauged through academic surveys and Social Networking websites – is that the innate biological tuning

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    Ebola in Africa

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    Ebola disease is a devastating illness‚ with at least 6 random outbreaks in the past decade in Africa‚ killing not only people but also a large number of gorillas‚ which threatens the species into extinction. The mystery surrounding Ebola has grown because the disease often fails to appear for years‚ sometimes even decades‚ and then suddenly breaks out in seemingly aimless areas(“Ebola threatens Apes in Africa” http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ebola_Threatens_Apes_In_Africa.html). Ebola disease

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    Profile Writing: Jane Goodall The person as she is today: Jane Goodall is currently a primatologist who set out to Tanzania in the 1960’s to study wild chimpanzees by bravely sitting amongst them with nothing but a notebook and her binoculars. She eventually gained the trust of these shy creatures due to her determination and the degree to which how persistent she was. Mrs. Jane is a fascinating woman whose extensive research into the behavior of chimpanzees from 1960’s to this day has changed

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    The Naked Ape Essay

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    The Naked Ape Essay My question is “After all we’ve evolved from‚ why can we still not control some of our animal-like instincts?” One possible answer is that no matter how much we evolve‚ we will always just be fancy apes. Desmond Morris said himself “Homo Sapiens have remained a naked ape nevertheless.” (The Naked Ape‚ page 9). To me‚ this is quite sad. However‚ I’m far from disagreeing with him. Apes can be extremely vicious and very easy to anger. Don’t we all know humans like that? And while

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    As medical science advances the need for more extensive testing of new medicines and pharmaceuticals. These drugs need to go through years of testing to see for possible long term affects. Instead of treatment on humans‚ scientists use a wide variety of animals to simulate the effects. These animals physiological similarities to humans would be their ultimate downfall. Yearly thousands of animals wake up each day‚ robbed of the liberties and freedom every organism has a right to. Although animals

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    Discovering Ardi

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    dating 3.2 million years ago and later discovered a child’s jaw with molars attached. They named this individual Lucy and was noted to be one of humans’ first ancestors (Decorse‚C.R &Scupin‚ R‚2008). After learning Lucy was more evolved than a chimpanzee they continued to search for a new species dated further when they discovered a finger bone and later a 90 fossil bone skeleton belonging to who they call “Ardipithecus Ramidus”. Ardi was the first species ever found that is displayed a skeletal

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    For example‚ one of the most noticiable distinctions between the two is that humans are bipeda while chimpanzees walk on all fours. In addition‚ the chimpanzee genome was found to differ from that of humans by about 1.23%. While this figure may not seem significant to the untrained eye‚ it accounts for around 40 million differences in our DNA. Finally‚ another difference between chimps and humans is that

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    Questions from the Movie: 1. What is “AZL-112”? a. The AZL-112 is an experimental genetic drug which allows the brain to create their own neural cells and repair any damaged cell. This experimental treatment was first tested in the chimpanzee # 9 which was subsequently renamed Bright Eyes. 2. Who is Will Rodman? b. Will Rodman is the scientist in charge of the scientific project of the drug and AZL AZL-112-113. 3. What is the animal used in the research? c. The animals

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    animals and this was easily seen when at the age of 4 she slept with earthworms in her bed and stayed in a hen house for 5 hours to see her hen lay an egg. See loved all animals but her infatuation with primates stemmed from receiving a stuffed chimpanzee which she named Jubilee‚ at the age of 2. This was from Current Biography. Jane had always dreamed of going to Africa to be among nature but it took her several years to make it there. Finally‚ one of her friends invited her to her family’s farm

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    Goodall. Goodall is best known for the 45-year study of social and family interactions she observed with wild chimpanzees in East Africa. Goodall’s research shed light on our evolutionary past‚ reveling human like behaviors and complexities within chimpanzee. Goodall’s is a leader in primate research‚ however has changed her focus now to the conversation of their habitats. Goodall opened the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977‚ to promote the education of conservation to children and adults all over the

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