The Great Ape Debate

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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.

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A hungry man is an angry man.

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.

A hungry man is never a free man.

Receive us we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

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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.

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The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this man!

For man is not from woman, but woman from man

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.

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The man on top can see, the blind man can walk.

Man Which one did you prefer? Man 2 The first one.

A man who dances is not a real man, he said.

Every man may see it man may behold it afar off.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

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