• September 22 -- Cucumber-Flinging Monkeys Fight for Fairness
Adam Cohen’s editorial summarizes a study of the group behavior of capuchin monkeys: “In a week when fairness was so evidently on the ropes--from the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, which poor nations walked out of in frustration, to the latest issue of Forbes, reporting that the richest 400 Americans are worth $955 billion--the capuchin monkeys offered a glimmer of hope from the primate gene pool.”

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