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?
Friday, 11 December 2009
When A Chimp Is Not A Chimp
For those of you still interested in Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus - and what she represents to the study of human origins and the nature of the common ancestor between humans and chimps here is a nice, simple little piece from Pat Shipman ("Taking Wing' and others) in American Scientist.
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