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Nature 404, 933 (27 April 2000) | doi:10.1038/35010178
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Evolution in a broader perspective
Christophe Boesch1
BOOK REVIEWED-Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
by Alison Jolly
Harvard University Press: 1999.
518 pp. $29.95, £18.50
Gigolo in French means a male prostitute, while in German it may mean a Don Juan, and some Americans see in it a man used by women in one way or another. Alison Jolly probably had this last sense in mind when she provocatively proposed to rename a group of primates with many females and a single male a 'gigolo' group.
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