Not a chimp [[electronic resource] ] : the hunt to find the genes that make us human / / Jeremy Taylor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455189403321
• Autore: Taylor Jeremy <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-34669-5; 9786612346699; 0-19-156735-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 599.93/5
• Soggetti: Human genetics; Human evolution; Animal behavior; DNA; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-333) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: From distant cousins to close family -- The language gene that wasn't -- Brain builders -- The riddle of the 1.6% -- Less is more -- More is better -- Aladdin's cave -- Povinelli's gauntlet -- Clever corvids -- Inside the brain : the devil is in the detail -- The ape that domesticated itself -- Chimps aren't us.
• Sommario/riassunto: Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair's breadth genetically! To a rather older tradition of anthropomorphizing chimps,trying to get them to speak, dressing them up for 'tea parties', was added the stamp of genetic confirmation. It