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TIME TO MAKE HUMAN-CHIMP HYBRIDS

The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.

By David P. Barash

It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory.

HEREDITY BEYOND THE GENE

What you pass on to your kids isn't always in your genetic code.

By Russell Bonduriansky & Troy Day

The idea that genes encode all the heritable features of living things has been a fundamental tenet of genetics and evolutionary biology for many years, but this assumption has always coexisted uncomfortably with the messy findings of empirical research.

THIS IS WHERE YOUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES WENT

Your brain needs to forget in order to grow.

By Ferris Jabr

We called them fairy rocks. They were just colorful specks of gravel—the kind you might buy for a fish tank—mixed into my preschool's playground sand pit.

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