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It's easy to understand how biologists can keep finding new species of beetles or earthworms. What's more surprising is that they're still finding new kinds of monkeys, some of man's closest living relatives. It happened again last week with the announcement that two species of monkeys...
If you're going to look for new monkeys, Brazil is the place to do it. Brazilian forests are home to 95 known species of primates, about 27% of the world's total; of the 24 monkeys described since 1990, 13 hail from Brazil.
Given the Amazon's size, it is unlikely that these monkeys will be the last of its secrets. Says co-discoverer Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International: "We've got some monkeys in cages that we know are new species. We just haven't described them yet."
The best picture the world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the...
Kirkus dusts of its copy of "The Origin of the Species," giving "Charles Darwin: The Power of Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire...