You know how the Buddhists say that our thoughts are like a monkey gone wild?

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The young bum laughed insanely and hopped backward toward the door, dangling his arms like a monkey.

NEWYORKER: Fiction

With a click, he flipped the image upside down, and the legs became long arms, like those on a monkey.

NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

In the late 1980s, researchers at the University of Parma in Italy found that the brain cells of macaque monkey fired in the same way whether they were making a particular motion (like reaching for a peanut) or watching another monkey or human make that movement.

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The progress of his editions on our shelf was like a cartoon of evolution, a slug crawling from the surf to become a mammal, a monkey, and then at last a hairless noble fellow gazing into the future.

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