Reg, Simon Paynton, and Jake:

Why humans are not clever chimps. (interesting site)

Well, there are lots of things to be said here.

A 13.5 percent difference in DNA versus 1.4 percent difference is still comparatively close and humans, chimps, and apes are still close enough to all be equally on the primate branch of the Darwinian Tree of Life.…[Read more]

The chimp article was spurious if not arboreous.

The herd won’t chime in if they’re incurious.

Where to start. Let me see. Rip it up and set the herd free. The notion that bias seeps into science is true. It does not however follow that Jane Goodall’s conclusions were nonscientific and one of the bases of bias.

“Chimps aren’t that smart; on t…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why humans are not clever chimps. (interesting site)

Theophilus Painter was not a very rigorous thinker, he kept making mistakes, of assuming things when he didn’t know, sometimes rooted in racial bias it is probably true.

New data from the National Institutes of Health show the human genome varies from the chimp…

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Simon Paynton:

But it has to be facilitated to some extent – someone has to be there to interpret and read out loud what someone is pointing to.

Ah, but I’m not facilitating your communication by reading your post.

And you’re not facilitating my communication by reading my post.

We’re both conveying, exchanging, and absorbing each o…[Read more]

But it has to be facilitated to some extent – someone has to be there to interpret and read out loud what someone is pointing to.

If they are doing it themselves it is not FC.