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This program examines the "selfish gene" hypothesis, laying out an interconnected tale of Western imperialism, African genocide, and the unusual psyches of the men who developed the theory. Working in an era that dubbed human beings "soft machines controlled by onboard computers," William Hamilton wondered why, if we are genetically programmed merely to survive, do some people behave altruistically? Together with computer scientist George Price he...
6) Monkey
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In 1925, the fledgling American Civil Liberties Union wanted to challenge the constitutionality of the Butler Law, a ruling forbidding the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools. For its test case, it selected the trial of John Scopes, who'd briefly taught Darwinism as a substitute biology teacher. But when celebrated lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow arrived to argue the case, the quiet procedural matter exploded into...
9) Monkey
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Presents excerpts from the sixteenth-century Chinese novel. Tells about the stone monkey who leads the other monkeys into heaven and thus becomes their king. Tells of his travels in search of immortality.
10) Monkey
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Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
11) Bad monkeys
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Confessing that she is a member of a secret organization dedicated to assassinating bad guys, murder suspect Jane Charlotte lands in a psychiatric hospital, where she recounts her increasingly bizarre life as a trained killer.
12) Monkey Business
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Scientists believe that chimpanzees hold the key to curing some of the diseases that plague mankind. Yet there are those who believe that the effects of experimentation on the chimps are too high a cost to pay for these medical breakthroughs. The images of apparent cruelty against animals inside medical research facilities has many debating what it takes to advance medical science. Are the animals even necessary to carry out the research?
14) Monkey island
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Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.
15) Monkey hunting
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A saga of a Chinese-Cuban family begins in 1857, when Chen Pan signs a contract that takes him from China to Cuba and enslavement on a sugarcane plantation and follows him as he finds prosperity in Havana's Chinatown.
16) The monkey wars
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Blum explores a complex middle ground in the controversy over using animals for medical experimentation.
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"Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling prose poem - -a mind-journey to the temple city of Galta in India and the occation for Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican poet and essayist, to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay."--Publisher description.
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"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp's lawyer, knows...
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