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Eric Michael Johnson received his masters degree in primate behavior and is now pursuing his PhD in the history of science.

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Sexy Beasts
June 29, 2010
Survival of the Kindest
Sept. 24, 2009

The Open Laboratory 2009:
Best Science Writing on Blogs
Male Chauvinist Chimps?

The Open Laboratory 2007:
Best Science Writing on Blogs
The Sacrifice of Admetus

Wildlife Conservation
Behind Enemy Lines
(November/December 2005)

Discover
The Laughter Circuit
Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002)
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Journal of Human Evolution
Sociality, ecology and relative brain size in lemurs.
JHE 2009 56(5):471-478.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Career or Family?: Maternal style and status-seeking behavior in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2008 135(S46):126
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Lack of inbreeding avoidance and reduction of alliance formation in matrilineally- housed bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2007 132(S44):137
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November 30, 2009
Category: Economics
This week, ten years ago, between 50,000 and 100,000 protesters from a wide variety of labor, environmental and global justice organizations descended on the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference being held in Seattle and prevented delegates from reaching the convention...
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Category: Politics
The New York Times Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Thomas Friedman, by his own definition, is insane. Many understood this when he published The Lexus and the Olive Tree and asserted that military socialism was a good thing because it promoted...
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November 26, 2009
Category: Blogging
Huxley Laden has just entered the world at a whopping 7 lbs. 11 oz. Please head over to Greg Laden's blog and offer your congratulations. As regular readers will know, my partner and I had our own primate in June...
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November 23, 2009
Category: #musicmonday
David Rovics sings his song remembering the hundreds of Irish recruits in the US invasion of Mexico in 1846 that turned on their commanders and fought on the side of Mexico. While this event is little known in American...
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Category: Religion
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has a quiz to test your understanding of religion and politics in American history. I got 19 out of 21. How'd you do?...
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November 22, 2009
Category: Humor
From Atheist Cartoons.com...
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November 21, 2009
Category: History
Now that his plan has backfired drastically (his own website has removed the link to his "Introduction" of Darwin's book) and more people were offended by his distortions than anything else, let me briefly point out some useful information. Comfort...
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November 20, 2009
Category: Rant
Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
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Posted by EMJ at 11:07 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
You just crossed the 400 mark at The Primate Diaries facebook fan page. If you're on facebook and follow this blog you should stop in and say hello. Comments here are always appreciated but if you would like to share...
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November 19, 2009
Category: Education
(To watch this as a music video click on the volume icon in the top left.) Here you are, all your bright, shining faces with a brand new copy of On the Origin of Species. It's extremely generous of...
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