On yesterday's episode of Last Week, Tonight, John Oliver sat down with the world's foremost chimpanzee expert and general badass Dame Jane Goodall, PhD, as part of his Great Minds: People Who Think Good series.
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Caretakers at a Louisiana home for retired research chimps are puzzled by a strange turn of events: two female chimpanzees there have become pregnant recently, in spite of the fact that all of the male chimps there have had vasectomies. Nature finds a way.
Research on humans and chimps suggest that the Y chromosome is evolving faster than the rest of the human genome. The AP reminds us this "doesn't necessarily mean men themselves are more evolved." [AP, via MSNBC]
Jane Goodall on empathy and its role in science: "It's the empathy you feel with a living, individual being that really helps you understand. Then you can use your scientific training to find out if your intuition is correct." [Time]
"I can tell you exactly when we knew," says Carole Noon's sister of her love of animals. "When the Tramp got carried to jail... we had to carry her out of the theater." [NY Times]
[Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands. Image via Getty]
