A rare case of maturity could be found at Nature's The Great Beyond which wrote that: Evidently people got the message, if the comments on Slashdot are any indication. Talking about chimpanzee sexuality allowed journalists to let loose and express views they would rarely utter otherwise. In other words, dating is just another form of prostitution and evolution proves that he that pays gets play. "The oldest profession isn't restricted to humans," FOXNews asserted, while The New York Post headline simply shouted "Chimpanzee Meat Market." Rupert Murdoch, naturally, got straight to the point. Ostensibly, these articles were talking about chimpanzees, but it was made perfectly clear what they were getting at. The Daily Mailagreed with a harrumph, "As every Romeo knows, laying on a delicious dinner for two is one of the best seduction ploys." Chuckling along with a wink and a nudge, MSNBC added, "A savory meat dinner goes a long way, as in all the way." "There's nothing like a prime rib dinner to boost a guy's chances of getting lucky," boasted ScienceNOWas he cleaned his monacle. You can still nominate entries for this year's edition until December 1, 2011.įrom the introductions alone, you would have thought you were in a 19th-century gentleman's club enjoying cigars and brandy. It was subsequently selected as a PLoS ONE Pick of the Month, as a Finalist in the 2009 Quark Prize in Science and appeared in the 2009 edition of The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on the Web ( buy it here).
Author's Note: The following originally appeared at Nature Network.
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