Share

Quote of the Day: 7/25/2018 Nathaniel Dominy

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Paula Holwerda

  • Monkey

    A patas monkeyCreditArt Wolfe/Science Source. (Source: The New York Times)

  • Lorax

    The Lorax and a character from "The Foot Book" were plotted on a chart with other African monkey faces to analyze similarities.CreditDominy et al. (Source: The New York Times)

  • Merlin Lorax

    CreditDr. Seuss Enterprises (Source: The New York Times)

"We're taking real tools from biology and applying them in a super serious way. I hope people find the humor in this," says the Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology.

Read more at: http://dartgo.org/quotedominy6. Posted by Dartmouth News, dartmouth.news@dartmouth.edu, on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, for All Students, All Faculty, All Staff.

Also featured in Dartmouth News today:

In a new study, Dartmouth's Nathaniel Dominy and Donald Pease suggest that the Dr. Seuss character the Lorax was based on the patas monkey. The monkey is native to Kenya, where Seuss, the pen name of Theodor Geisel '25, vacationed in 1970.

Click here to read the full article "'I speak for the trees': Could this monkey be Dr Seuss’s Lorax?" in Nature, the international journal of science.