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Science 2 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5740, pp. 1498 - 1499
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111421
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Perspectives

NATURAL HISTORY:
Beyond the Chimpanzee Genome: The Threat of Extinction

Marc D. Hauser

In his Perspective, Hauser comments that to fully profit from the information encoded in the chimpanzee genome, we will need an equally rich depiction of chimpanzee behavior, thought, and neural function. Given the explosion of recent findings from the behavioral and cognitive sciences, a synthesis is on the horizon. Only our own casual use of the environment, which threatens the future of chimpanzees, can stand in the way of witnessing this synthesis.

The author is in the Departments of Psychology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: mdh{at}wjh.harvard.edu

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