Law-rence Martin, in The Sciences (Mar.-Apr. 1988), New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
In Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin embraced a view, first pro- posed his staunch defender, T. H. Huxley, that the closest relative to man on the evolutionary tree "is either the Chimpanzee or the Gorilla."
For a hundred years, many scientists questioned this closeness. Martin, an anthropologist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, shows that in recent...