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Virginia MOCA exhibit explores fragility of the environment

Virginia MOCA exhibit explores fragility of the environment

Martha Nussbaum's "Justice for Animals" takes ethics to wild extremes

The philosopher’s new book says humans should grant equal rights to animals, even in the wild.

Northwestern Magazine: A Fresh Perspective for the Guggenheim

As chief curator at the Guggenheim, Naomi Beckwith asks us to rethink how we see art.

Fossil apes and human evolution

A distinctive ancestor There has been much focus on the evolution of primates and especially where and how humans diverged in this process. It has often been suggested that the last common ancestor between humans and other apes, especially our closest relative, the chimpanzee, was ape- or chimp-like. Almécija et al. review this area and conclude that the morphology of fossil apes was varied and that it is likely that the last shared ape ancestor had its own set of traits, different from those of modern humans and modern apes, both of which have been undergoing separate suites of selection pressures.