A new study has theorized that human beings are more closely related to orangutans than chimps. Perhaps, but does it really matter–at least from a moral perspective? I say no. I explain why over at Secondhand Smoke.
Friday, June 19, 2009, 12:42 PM
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June 22nd, 2009 | 1:27 pm
Wesley:
Why is genetics the proper level of comparison? If the comparison were made at the level of physics, the similarities would be 100%, as it would be between me and the door.
Perhaps we can take it up a notch to something like this: ability to grasp universals. On that level the differences between a human and a chimp is astronomical.
June 23rd, 2009 | 2:42 pm
Are we not 47% related to daffodils?
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