Speaking of Science

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—Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham, in Catching Fire, his 2009 book about how the control of fire and the cooking of food shaped hominin evolution

—Harvard psychologist Felix Warneken and Yale postdoc Alexandra G. Rosati, in a recent research article showing that chimpanzees understand the process of cooking and prefer the cooked version of certain foods (Proc R Soc B, June 3)

—Vincent Giguère, associate editor of Molecular Endocrinology, in an editorial warning of the dangers
of giving misleading names to genes and gene products (June 1)

—A notice posted by Science Careers staff about the retraction of a controversial advice column post advising a female postdoc who was uncomfortable with her advisor’s inappropriate sexual behavior to “put up with it” (June 1)

—Caltech virologist Alice ...