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?
I am talking tonight at the Medway Cafe Scientifique - held at 7.30 p.m. at the Innovation Centre, Medway, Phase 2, Maidstone Road, Chatham, Kent ME5 9FD.
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