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, 24 October 2009
Portsmouth Cafe Sci Tuesday Night
I'm doing a talk at the Portsmouth Cafe Scientifique on Tuesday night, 27th October, between 8 and 10 p.m. The Portsmouth Cafe have a lot of members from the psychology department where Kim Bard (who worked on chimp cognition at Yerkes Primate Center) is now Professor of Comparative Developmental Psychology. Should be fun!!
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