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“Humans tend to believe we are unique, but that belief is not based on facts.”
—Behavioral biologist Satoshi Hirata, quoted in the journal Nature, on his finding that chimps, like humans, give birth to babies that face backward. He is one of the few researchers ever to have witnessed chimp parturition firsthand.