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• The Economist has posted the second installment of its “book club” discussion of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
• Jim Taylor, co-editor with Margaret A. Hogan of A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams, discussed the diaries and memoirs that comprise the collection with WBUR’s Radio Boston.
• The New Republic has posted a series of letters excerpted from The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987.
• The Pennsylvania Gazette featured a story on John Jackson’s ethnographic work, along with an excerpt from his Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem.

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March 6: (SPOILER ALERT) You Are Not An Ape!

Why did human evolution diverge from that of our closest primate relatives? What can studying apes tell us about early human social structures? What actually makes us different? In the richly illustrated and referenced Apes and Human Evolution, University of Chicago Professor of Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology Russell Tuttle synthesizes virtually all we know about such questions to produce an authoritative history of the evolution of us. Below, Tuttle outlines some of the major topics addressed in the book, which he’ll be presenting at Chicago’s Seminary Co-Op Bookstore on March 20th. ----- In Apes and Human Evolution, I argue that since the 19th-century …