Re: What were those apes called?

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In article <46ohea$lh4@unogate.unocal.com> stgprao@sugarland.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>In article <26OCT199502300525@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>,
>>As for your question, they're bonobos, or pygmy chimps.
>
>See (Oct?) 1994 Scientific American for an article on these promiscuous
>little beasts.

Unfortunately, the October 1994 Scientific American article than mentions
Bonobo chimps (on page 100) is mostly interested in their intellectual
capacity (language, tool use, cortex size, etc.). I was hoping to see
something on their genetic similarities to humans (more or less human-like
than other chimps?), or at least more of their mating habits :-).

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