Yerkes National Primate Research Center

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The main center of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center comprises the Neuroscience Building (left), the original building (center), and the Emory Vaccine Center (right). Emory University assumed ownership of the center in 1956.

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Yerkes National Primate Research Center

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