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, 22 January 2010
The Sad Tale Of Jerry - The Chimp
Here's a sad little tale that's been swishing around the blogosphere today, about the eventual demise of the highly "humanized" chimp, Jerry, the star attraction of a small private zoo set up opposite the newly-created Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Yet more evidence, not that it is surely needed, that raising chimps as humans doesn't work, it is inappropriate for chimps and often ends in tears.
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