Are we humans simply remodelled apes? Chimps with a tweak? Is the difference between our genomes so minuscule it justifies the argument that our cognition and behaviour must also differ from chimps by barely a whisker? If “chimps are us” should we grant them human rights? Or is this one of the biggest fallacies in the study of evolution? NOT A CHIMP argues that these similarities have been grossly over-exaggerated - we should keep chimps at arm’s length. Are humans cognitively unique after all?
Saturday, 1 August 2009
"Me Cheeta" Makes Booker Prize List
Nice piece in The Guardian as Zoe Williams meets up with "Me Cheeta" novelist James Lever in a Kensal Rise coffee-shop. Although this "ghost-written" autobiography of Johnnie Weismuller's famous sidekick from Tarzan days has gone through several deceits since first revealed as forthcoming by publishers Fourth Estate, it appears to be an excruciatingly wicked filleting of the Hollywood culture.
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