Smoking Chimp?
Yeah.
www.wral.com/irresistible/4406522/detail.html
I know way more about chimps than I probably should.
Biologically we’re very similar. We’re different from the head up and the waist down, but our guts are basically the same.
If a monkey gets sick you take them to a veterinarian. If a chimp gets sick, you take them to a hospital for humans. That’s telling.
Culturally, they don’t write poetry and do calculus, but neither do I. Competing clans of chimps wage war. They use tools. They live in very sophisticated political environments.
Some scientists have even argued that chimps should be taxonomically reclassified to represent our similarity, changing their Latin name from Pan troglodytes to something in our own genus, Homo, right in there with Neanderthals and other folks.
www.wral.com/irresistible/4406522/detail.html
I know way more about chimps than I probably should.
Biologically we’re very similar. We’re different from the head up and the waist down, but our guts are basically the same.
If a monkey gets sick you take them to a veterinarian. If a chimp gets sick, you take them to a hospital for humans. That’s telling.
Culturally, they don’t write poetry and do calculus, but neither do I. Competing clans of chimps wage war. They use tools. They live in very sophisticated political environments.
Some scientists have even argued that chimps should be taxonomically reclassified to represent our similarity, changing their Latin name from Pan troglodytes to something in our own genus, Homo, right in there with Neanderthals and other folks.
posted by John Derrick | 3:12 PM
2 Comments:
Yes, John, I'd say you do know more about chimps than is probably good for you. Nice blog, btw.
One note: I thought scientists had determined that Neanderthal man wasn't, genetically one of our ancestors but rather a different species?
Good Comment. Neanderthals have been pretty well genetically discounted as being an ancestor of modern H. sapiens (though there is some continued debate), but they are still lumped into the genus Homo. Kind of like different types of armadillos might be in the same group without one being the ancestor of another.
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