| MY NEW BOOK: MR. COLEMAN |
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One percent. Less than one percent actually. That’s what separates us genetically from a creature that is as happy in the trees as he is on land, whose upper body strength is more than five times that of a man, and whose powerful jaws could take your hand off with a single bite. A creature that came before us and still shares our world…a creature we traditionally relegate to circus tents, jungle movies, zoos, and, yes, “research” labs…the chimpanzee. That creature is the titular subject of the new book, Mr. Coleman by Scot A. Simmons. Mr. Coleman is about an unlikely friendship -- one between a man and a full-grown chimpanzee. Inspired by true incidents and actual characters, it’s actually a love story -- examining the intimacy of shared experience, the meaning of friendship, the joy of play, and the nature of true heroism.
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