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RAZD
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Message 16 of 25 (292337)
03-05-2006 10:51 AM
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03-05-2006 9:49 AM


politics? or ego?
Look at it a different way -- I have not seen classification of humans as {not-apes} in any biological classification scheme.
Recently there has been an effort to reclassify chimps\bonobos as hominids, due to their genetic (and behavioral?) similarity (especially vs the dissimilarity between species in other families).
I think traditionally humans have been kept in a distinct family due to speciocentric egotism (the need for hierachic superiority that is also the basis of racism etc). "My dog's better than your dog" subconscious thinking. If it's politics, it's the politics of bias.

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Message 17 of 25 (292346)
03-05-2006 11:09 AM
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03-05-2006 10:32 AM


The creationist crowd does not like to think of themselves as animals either.
Let's be fair.
There are many non-creationists who also don't like to think of themselves as animals. In colloquial usage, the word "animal" often is taken to exclude humans.

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Message 18 of 25 (292348)
03-05-2006 11:19 AM
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03-05-2006 11:09 AM


To be sure, but the creationist are the most vocal on that.

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Message 19 of 25 (292351)
03-05-2006 11:25 AM
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03-05-2006 10:51 AM


Homo (Pan)
Recently there has been an effort to reclassify chimps\bonobos as hominids, due to their genetic (and behavioral?) similarity (especially vs the dissimilarity between species in other families).
I've seen a scheme that takes this further and reclassifies Pan as a subgenus of Homo. Do you know if this is being considered seriously by systematists?
This seems to me to be on-topic.

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Message 20 of 25 (292353)
03-05-2006 11:29 AM
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03-05-2006 11:25 AM


Re: Homo (Pan)
Back in the 1700s, I believe Linneaus originally classified chimps as Homo troglodytes

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Message 21 of 25 (292357)
03-05-2006 11:40 AM
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03-05-2006 11:29 AM


Re: Homo (Pan)
Apparently it was an orang utan that he named Homo troglodytes. All he seems to have had was a pickled specimen. Chimps may not have been known to Europeans in 1756.

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Message 22 of 25 (292360)
03-05-2006 11:46 AM
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Re: Homo (Pan)
mmmm... pickled orang

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Message 23 of 25 (292368)
03-05-2006 12:11 PM
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03-05-2006 11:46 AM


Re: Homo (Pan)
Oh, yeah, I'm sorry! That should have been in the food thread!

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Message 24 of 25 (292596)
03-06-2006 2:56 AM
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03-05-2006 10:32 AM


Many taxonomic classifications above the level of species can be regarded as arbitrary, and in some cases dependent on the views of the person putting forth the classification, as is the case with the human clade.
It doesn't really matter much if we are ape or not (IMO: we are). What does matter is whether or not we are animal.
All the evidence i've encountered, whether morphological, behavioural, or genetic, clearly points to humans being members of the Kingdom Animalia . I've encountered no evidence that contradicts this.

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Message 25 of 25 (292868)
03-06-2006 11:49 PM
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03-05-2006 11:25 AM


Re: Homo (Pan)
Do you know if this is being considered seriously by systematists?
I've seen papers to this effect. How serious it is can be difficult to judge given that the whole cladistics thing is in a state of flux now due to the new data from genetics. I give it a couple of years to sort out.

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