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That both of the female baboons at San Antonio's Southwest Foundation for Research and Education had become mothers on Sept. 5, 1975, was hardly unusual. That each was the mother of the same infant male baboon was another matter entirely. In fact, delivery of the baby baboon, reported in Science, was the first birth of a primate resulting from an embryo transplant.* It also may have brought closer the day when a woman who can conceive but is unable to carry a child through a full-term pregnancy could allow another woman to carry and give birth...
...light of pop ethology and sociobiology, the Yãnomamö are seen not only as "wild Indians" but as one short step away from a baboon troop. The familiar tendency to look upon other groups of people as being less fully human than ourselves here masquerades as science...
...neighbor Loretta tells Bedmate "Baby Boy" she is postponing her country-music career to become a missionary. Suddenly, the traumas are interrupted by a series of boffo bulletins. "Tonight, we'll tell you more about Howard Hughes' sex habits ... We'll chase a runaway baboon at the airport ... and check out wedding bells behind prison walls ... Be informed and have fun, beginning in three minutes on Metro News, MetroNews...
...notion startling to traditional anthropology: the rather horrifying Yãnomamõ culture makes some sense in terms of animal behavior. Chagnon argues that Yãnomamõ structures closely parallel those of many primates in breeding patterns, competition for females and recognition of relatives. Like baboon troops, Yãnomamõ villages tend to split into two after they reach a certain size...
...write In the Jungle of Cities. A jungle is an apt, if overused, metaphor for the most grotesque, competitive aspects of a city--John D. Rockefeller, invoking Darwin to describe his goals for the capitalist economy, suggested how apt the comparison can be--and Brecht populates his jungle with Baboon and another henchman cleverly named Worm to emphasize the point. But otherwise he ignores the real psychology of city life in order to concentrate on the petty idiosyncracies of his characters...