1. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
of Evolution of Language and Speech (The New York Academy
of Sciences, New York, 1976); Lieberman, The Biology and
Evolution of Language.
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2. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
genetic and evolutionary evidence suggests - but cannot prove - an
appalling possibility. This is that hundreds of millions of the
non-human victims of our actions are functionally akin -
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3. Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival, by Lewis Regenstein
— an
evolutionary Rubicon whose crossing Homo sapiens would do
well to avoid. . . . humans appoint themselves as the ultimate
arbiters of evolution and determine its future course on the basis
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4. Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
was concerned with the evolution of verbal communication,
and wondered how a non-linguistic being could develop a system of
communication that could lead to communication of the human sort.
He
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5. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
in the behavioural and evolutionary
sciences in front of the chimpanzee cages at London Zoo: they were
acting just like the visitors at a madhouse before the French
Revolution. He felt deeply
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6. Ambiguous Apes, by Raymond Corbey
Charles Darwin was pondering evolution
and its mechanisms, he gave expression to his bewilderment with
the following exclamation, jotted down in one of his notebooks:
'Our grandfather is the devil under
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7. Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns, by Jon Wynne-Tyson
but
evolutionary. The cold arrogance of those who wish man to have
self-interested mastery over everything he regards as beneath him
is an out-of-date and short-sighted perversion of our
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8. The Ascent of Apes — Broadening the Moral Community, by Bernard E. Rollin
again, its
revolutionary nature compared with what obtained historically
regarding scientists' carte blanche over research animals
cannot be underestimated. These rights must be respected, even
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9. What's in a Classification?, by R. I. M. Dunbar
about their evolutionary history from the patterning of the
relationships between these clusters. But it is essential that
inferences about evolutionary history come after classifying, and
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10. Chimpanzees’ Use of Sign Language, by Roger S. Fouts & Deborah H. Fouts
E. King and A. C. Wilson, 'Evolution at two levels in
humans and chimpanzees', Science, vol. 188 (1975) pp.
107-16.
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