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Duke, Harvard researchers to monitor bonobo reintroduction

DURHAM, N.C. -- American researchers who have been studying the rare and threatened bonobo ape will lead monitoring efforts after a group of orphan bonobos are returned to the wild in the Congo for the first time this month.

On June 14 and 28, for the first time ever, a group of 18 orphan bonobos will be returned to the wild.

Review of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

June 6, 2009 by Fred Bortz

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Review of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham
(Basic Books, 312 pages, $26.95, June, 2009)
Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz



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