NOT A CHIMP

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, 24 April 2015

Are Chimps Entitled to Human Rights? NY Court to Decide

Are Chimps Entitled to Human Rights? NY Court to Decide.

http://www.livescience.com/50595-are-chimps-entitled-to-human-rights.html

This little new England saga has been running fort a few days - a judge appearing to be extending the writ of habeas corpus to two allegedly abused chimps, only to rescind it almost immediately. The latest in the long-running farce of "human rights" for chimps