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 genome not by 1.4 percent but by closer to 13.5 percent, says Leaf.
That sounds more realistic than 1.4%.
Many scientists believe that the instinctive lives of animals can teach us much about the inner lives of humans.
In the process, the inner life of humans follows one long chain of degradation. The whole medley of conditions and feelings known as “human behavior” loses its splendid pitch; the delicate sentiments, the exalted thoughts, and the urge to poetry are all viewed from the perspective of the animal, whose sole goal is to survive and reproduce. The scientific approach hardly inspires.
It depends on how good you are at philosophy.
