The Great Ape Debate

Multi male groups are the most common, just as they are in most anthropoid primates.

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Gerrit Smith Miller concludes the jaw is from a fossil ape.

The Great Ape Project does not reject the idea of basic rights for other animals.

Several million years ago, a species of small African ape gained the ability to stand upright.

The value of 98 99 similarity between human and ape DNA stands outside the rest of life.

I founded the Great Ape Project together with Paola Cavalieri, an Italian philosopher and animal advocate, in 1993.

The Great Ape Project seeks to change the way we think about great apes, and ultimately, about animals in general.

If anything, the DNA comparison underestimates the profound similarity of the human and ape bodies in the great tapestry of nature.

Paola Cavalieri and I founded The Great Ape Project in 1993 to break down the barriers between human and nonhuman animals.

But as far as we know, we're the only upright walking ape that exists on planet Earth today, except for the bonobos.

In other words, this apparent fact of nature the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape is a fact constructed from culture.

By submitting to a common regime of speaking, writing, reading, observing, and calculating, the upright ape acquired the capacity to reason in public.

It was the shape of the brain that allowed Raymond Dart to conclude that the fossil was that of a human relative rather than an extinct ape.

The Great Ape Project seeks to change the way we think about great apes, and ultimately, about animals in general. The Spanish resolution marks the first official acceptance of that view.

This Dutch paleontologist had found (in 1933) a tooth in a Chinese apothecary shop in 1934 that he believed belonged to a giant tall ape that lived around half a million years ago.

Her talk about the aquatic ape, and the link, of course, the link between Darwinism and the fact that we are all naked beneath this we're not hirsute and we can swim rather well.

Prehistory Early humans Genetic measurements indicate that the ape lineage which would lead to Homo sapiens diverged from the lineage that would lead to chimpanzees (the closest living relative of modern humans) around five million years ago.

I founded the Great Ape Project together with Paola Cavalieri, an Italian philosopher and animal advocate, in 1993. Our aim was to grant some basic rights to the nonhuman great apes life, liberty, and the prohibition of torture.

All I can tell you is that in my congressional office in Colorado and my office in Washington, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea and her theory on why mainstream science doesn't take it seriously.

In 1993, Paola Cavalieri and I founded The Great Ape Project, an organization dedicated to the idea of recognizing that great apes have a moral status befitting their nature as self aware beings who are capable of thought and have rich and deep emotional lives.

He argued and it's now a fairly common theory that if we found behavior patterns similar or the same in our closest living relatives, the great apes, and humans today, then maybe those behaviors were present in the ape like, human like ancestor some seven million years ago.

I doubt many of you in the audience can see the fossil that's in this picture, but if you look very carefully, there is a jaw, a lower jaw, of a 4.1 million year old upright walking ape as it was found at Lake Turkana on the west side.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.