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  "textContent": "Desmond Morris, the English zoologist whose 1967 bestseller _The Naked Ape_ argued that modern humans are basically fancy primates still running on Stone Age software, died Sunday near Dublin at 98, according to the New York Times. Twenty million copies and 23 translations later, the book is still in print — despite being pulled from shelves in a Long Island school district and denounced by professionals in roughly every relevant academic field. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Desmond Morris wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks to pay for a house appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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