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?

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Syntax is not unique to human language – the Japanese great tits “speak” in phrases too

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=161792&CultureCode=en

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Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep22219?WT.ec_id=SREP-631-20160301&spMailingID=50865547&spUserID=NzI1NTQ2NjU4NAS2&spJobID=880986484&spReportId=ODgwOTg2NDg0S0
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I have spent most of my professional life inside the science documentary television industry, with evolutionary biology a subject I have visited many times. Until 1992 I was a senior producer and director for BBC Television, where I contributed many films to the BBC’s long-running flagship science series ‘Horizon’ (including two landmark programmes presented by Richard Dawkins, “Nice Guys Finish First” and “The Blind Watchmaker”). My first book, “Not a Chimp” ('A provocative book that should be read by anyone interested in the debate about similarities and differences between humans and chimpanzees', Dan Agin, Huffington Post) was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. My second book, “Body By Darwin”, to which this blog is dedicated, will be published by University of Chicago Press in November, 2015.
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