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, 2 April 2010
Human Culture, An Evolutionary Force
Here's a New York Times article by Nick Wade that I should have posted ages ago. Proof that recent ideas that, contrary to received wisdom, human evolution has recently speeded up, not slowed down or stopped over the last 40,000 years, are reaching mainstream.
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