Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
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Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#2How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article??
"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?"
Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#3Of course they can't, they don't speak.
Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#4How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? "Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
>How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article??
>"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?"
If you look again at that sentence you quoted, it has a hyperlink to primatologist Jane Goodall comparing Trump to a chimpanzee.[1]
Because Goodall is somewhat of a celebrity on the subject of chimps, and Trump is...obviously Trump, a lot of various media outlets picked up on the combination. E.g. Guardian, FT, Huffington, Fox News, etc.[2]
So it seems like the author is basically responding to all of that.
[1] http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aggressive-chimp-and-ma...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=comparing+President+Trump+to...
Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#5How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? "Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
>How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? >"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" If you look again at that sentence you quoted, it has a hyperlink to primatologist Jane Goodall comparing Trump to a chimpanzee.[1] Because Goodall is somewhat of a celebrity on the subject of chimps, and Trump is...obviously Trump, a lot of various media outlets picked up on the combina…
Great point. Updating my comment.
Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#6How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? "Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
It's hard to understand what you're objecting to. 1) This is pop sci, not a "scientific article", and 2) the text you quoted links to another article about the most famous primatologist in the world making exactly that comparison.
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Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#8How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? "Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
It's hard to understand what you're objecting to. 1) This is pop sci, not a "scientific article", and 2) the text you quoted links to another article about the most famous primatologist in the world making exactly that comparison.
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Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#9> Racism and global climate change are not explained by our shared history with chimpanzees, nor are gender diversity, the #MeToo movement, and the recent rise in nationalism.
No. It can all be compared to how most social mammals operate.
Racism & nationalism have their roots in tribalism, a very useful tool to keep a tribe cohesive and thus competitive against other tribes.
Climate change: Have a look at any invasive species for examples.
Gender diversity & MeToo: Genders in mammals will take on certain specialized roles in order to survive in their environment.
Are they right and ethical? Of course not. Times have changed, and our psyches haven't kept up. But ignoring our evolutionary heritage only results in treating the symptoms rather than the cause. That's not how you correct problems.
> It’s only by delving into humanity’s distinctive evolutionary history, since our split with the other ape lineages, that we are better able to develop a fuller understanding of the human niche, of what makes us specifically human.
Uh, no. It's also important to find out what's baked into our psyche, no matter how ugly or inconvenient, and take steps to compensate for them or maybe even correct them. That's what higher reasoning is for.
Re: Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
#10How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? "Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
>How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article?? >"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?" If you look again at that sentence you quoted, it has a hyperlink to primatologist Jane Goodall comparing Trump to a chimpanzee.[1] Because Goodall is somewhat of a celebrity on the subject of chimps, and Trump is...obviously Trump, a lot of various media outlets picked up on the combina…
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