Fertility Rites
Chimp sperm may unlock one of the riddles of human conception. But first you have to collect it.… More »
Jon Cohen is a correspondent with Science and the author of Almost Chimpanzee (Times Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2010), from which his October 2010 Atlantic story was adapted.
Chimp sperm may unlock one of the riddles of human conception. But first you have to collect it.… More »
The notion that AIDS arose from a polio vaccine made with contaminated chimpanzee cells—the thesis of the best-selling book The River—is far from the only theory about how the epidemic started, and it is hotly disputed. The quest for the source of the epidemic is intensifying, as researchers scour the jungle for clues and try to "walk back" the disease genetically with the help of the world's most powerful computers … More »
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The Civil War
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