Scientific American - February 2019

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10 Scientific American, February 2019

K & K AMMAN

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Illustrations by Thomas Fuchs

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those personality metrics to a

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trainers and researchers caring

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complete a survey originally

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personality (though not the

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in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

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similar (even though chimpanzee person-

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about their social environment that has

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an intellectual exercise. For humans there

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BIOCHEMISTRY

Urine Trouble

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doctors into prescribing pain medications
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pee lets patients pass tests intended to
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mens have included testing urine’s acidity

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creatinine. But some synthetic products

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cially available synthetic urine. All samples

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personality traits, plus a sixth.

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