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Re: humans are infinitely more important than animals

In Reply to: humans are infinitely more important than animals posted by Zachary Emig on August 10, 1997 at 22:57:42:

Since humans are not plants or single cell organisms we must be animals. In fact we are vertibrates, and we are classed as primates. We have the same needs and behaviour as primates. When we deforest, we wave goodbye to our econiche.

Richard Darkins (University of Oxford) also says in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (p. xi); "How far would the chain go before we met the common ancestor of ourselves and chimpanzees? The answer is a surprisingly short distance. According to reliable molecular evidence, our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived only about 5 million years ago, say 250 000 generations." and that "Not only are we very close to chimpanzees, we are far closer to chimpanzees and gorillas than they are to other apes such as orangutans and gibbons. If there is some catagory - 'apes' - to which chimpanzees and orangs both belong, we must count ourselves in it too. We are apes... we are African apes, for we are in a catagory that includes chimpanzees and gorillas but excludes orangs and gibbons. There is even some evidence
that we are closer to the two species of chimpanzees than they are to gorillas, which is why Jared Diamond has called our species 'the third chimpanzee'."

John
(vegan-straight-edge)

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