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The Red Ape:

Orang-Utans and Human Origins
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Hougton Miffin Company, 1987 - Science - 337 pages
A fascinating tour of evolutionary biology that calls into question our implicit social and political commitment to the current theories, offering persuasive evidence that our closest relative is not the gorilla but the orangutan. 16 page black-and-white photo insert. Illustrations.

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Review: The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins, Revised and Updated

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The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins, Revised and Updated by Jeffrey Schwartz (2005) Read full review

Review: The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins, Revised and Updated

User Review  - AJ - Goodreads

Very provocative. I always assumed the close DNA relatedness of chimps and humans made us of the same clade... Now, with a detailed discussion of such and morphologic features, I am beginning to think ... Read full review

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Contents

The Orangutan i
9
In Pursuit of Human Ancestry
26
The Search for Our Closest Relatives
57
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About the author (1987)

Jeffrey H. Schwartz is a professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History.

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