According to wikipedia, humans are one of the great apes, and the only one
that is not endangered:
Hominidae - Wikipedia
Then, even some paleoanthologists may disagree, and John Hawks is one of them:
John D. Hawks - Wikipedia
He wrote this a few years back:
Humans aren't monkeys. We aren't apes, either.
I admit this blog post is fairly confusing and convoluted; we have fewer problems with identifying
ourselves as primates or simians.
Yuval Noah Harari remarked in 21 Lessons for 21 Century:
“When I think of the mystery of existence, I prefer to use other words, so as to avoid confusion. And
unlike the God of the Islamic State and the Crusades--who cares a lot about names and above all about
His most holy name--the mystery of existence doesn't care an iota what names we apes give it.”
The French novel of La Planète des singes, which is better known for its movie adoption, even confuses
the matter more.
In Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth,
Juan Enriquez and steve Gullans suggested that within the human domain, we are driving evolution
of both humans, crops, pets, and livestock. We may call this "Human Selection"; as for great ape, it is
a controversial term so far.
Why is it controversial to call humans one of the great apes?
Is La Planète des singes scientifically improbable? If so, why?
Even Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: a Brief History is controversial due to his theory of cognitive revolution,
and can we seriously track what was revolutionary during the paleolithic era?
that is not endangered:
Hominidae - Wikipedia
Then, even some paleoanthologists may disagree, and John Hawks is one of them:
John D. Hawks - Wikipedia
He wrote this a few years back:
Humans aren't monkeys. We aren't apes, either.
I admit this blog post is fairly confusing and convoluted; we have fewer problems with identifying
ourselves as primates or simians.
Yuval Noah Harari remarked in 21 Lessons for 21 Century:
“When I think of the mystery of existence, I prefer to use other words, so as to avoid confusion. And
unlike the God of the Islamic State and the Crusades--who cares a lot about names and above all about
His most holy name--the mystery of existence doesn't care an iota what names we apes give it.”
The French novel of La Planète des singes, which is better known for its movie adoption, even confuses
the matter more.
In Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth,
Juan Enriquez and steve Gullans suggested that within the human domain, we are driving evolution
of both humans, crops, pets, and livestock. We may call this "Human Selection"; as for great ape, it is
a controversial term so far.
Why is it controversial to call humans one of the great apes?
Is La Planète des singes scientifically improbable? If so, why?
Even Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: a Brief History is controversial due to his theory of cognitive revolution,
and can we seriously track what was revolutionary during the paleolithic era?
