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.

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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.

Go create. Go figure it out.

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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.

The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them and when they go out, he shall go out.

Researcher Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm listening.

And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in and when they go forth, shall go forth.

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.

People say you go to sleep, but you really don't go to sleep, you go towards sleep.

Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go but if you will not go with me, I will not go.

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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.

Those who do not wish to go need not go.

And sometimes they learn not to go to the blue, but to go to where the other bees go.

And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

I had to see my coach screaming for me, Come on Lewis! Come on! Go! Go! Go! Don't slow down!

They don't really go to the usual place that memories go.

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

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Let's go!

Let's go!

Let's go!

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