Is she studying them, or is she studying us?
What is human? Were Neanderthals human? Homo Habilis? Australopithecines? Where do we draw the line between proto-human and human? Who is an ancestor and who is an animal? Should we even try to make such a distinction?
Is there such a thing as overcategorization? Can we wrap ourselves up in the abstract and esoteric so much that we lose sight of what is... Is? Conversely, is simply living in the moment and defining life through individual experience wrong? Or right? Or indifferent?
What's the point?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Jane Goodall
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Sorry to be Off Topic but I hear you're looking for me and I can't find an email addy for you.
Mine's serrathescented@gmail.com, and my blog addy's in the info for this comment.
looking for one "missing link" is the same as trying to find the one man who passes on the black, yellow, white, brown, and red genes equally. mutation happens gradually, and not equally. autralopithicus, homo habalis, neanderthal, cro-magnon, all branches off the same tree. each one bringing with it a new series of adaptations and mutations. the most interesting part? that a hybrid was able to breed. i guess dr. malcom was right, "life finda a way."
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