Do you hate doing the dishes?

Just how much then?

Here's the plan all laid out.

I think the failure actually goes to show how little zoos care for their primates. Or actually how little Monkey-Chow companies do. Any zoo worth its salt in caring for any of its animals wouldn't stick to chow, or at least chow alone.

I am surprised however that it missed out on a genuine TV offer. It's better than the premise of Yasmin's Getting Married (actually, I just used Google, i don't think that show has a premise).

Who was Neanderthal-man?

Fresh off the press at Nature, is news that geneticists are hoping to sequence out Neanderthal DNA for comparison with humans and chimps. The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has put a two year goal on the idea.

With the NGHRI planning on sequencing all major primate species, it means that scientists will be able to compare these with Neanderthal's and get a clearer picture of its ancestry - and its relative position to us.

The only problem is that most (barring Encino Man) Neanderthals are fossils, and fossils don't have a good track record of giving viable genetic data for complete sequences. But Neanderthals are young, so maybe there is a little hope. Although I have a feeling it's about as realistic as Mammoth Park.