Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site dspo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!dspo!blossom From: blossom@dspo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Re: Comments about SOR Pamphlet #4: Humans & Chimps Message-ID: <189@dspo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 19:42:23 EST Article-I.D.: dspo.189 Posted: Fri Dec 21 19:42:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:24:41 EST References: <190@talcott.UUCP> <576@uwmacc.UUCP> <194@talcott.UUCP> <327@spp2.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 23 > I seem to recall a quote in an issue of Newsweek that dealt > with evolution a couple of years ago in which an evolutionist > remarked upon the genetic similarity between chimps and humans. > One quote in particular sticks in my mind: observing that it > would probably be possible to cross the two species, he > added that "it is difficult to imagine an experiment that is > at the same time as scientifically interesting and morally > repugnant." I may still have the article at home, and I'll > try to hunt up the exact quote. > > Mike "I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to me. But, if I had called man an ape, or visa versa, I would have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so. " Carl Linnaeus .... 1788 .... founder of taxonomy Darwin also thought of the idea of speciation as an artificial distinction applied by man, and described the process as a continuum. j. blossom LANL