He also poked fun at himself with John Goodman's line about even a rhesus monkey being able to direct a film.

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The U.S. space program launched a rhesus monkey into space from New Mexico in 1948.

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You might not know it from the war room's poster-size photo of a rhesus monkey slumped against a tree branch.

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Mitalipov's breakthrough was the result of merging skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed.

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