Jonathan Marks teaches biological anthropology at the University of
North Carolina, Charlotte, and is the author of What It Means to Be
98% Chimpanzee (California), The Chromosomes in Human
Evolution (forthcoming from Walter de Gruyter) and other works.
I first heard of Jon Beckwith in the mid-1970s, in a question framed by my genetics professor: Why would anyone willfully disrupt a research program designed to collect useful information on hu