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Author Topic:   Is Inkorrekt, like all humans, an ape?
RAZD
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Message 16 of 25 (292337)
03-05-2006 10:51 AM
Reply to: Message 12 by Michael
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 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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