October 19, 2001
'Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence'
They are cousins, much removed, but family nonetheless. Still, the more we learn about our hirsute relatives -- the chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans -- the trickier things become. There are the troubling moral implications of so much shared DNA, going as high as 98.4 percent for the chimps.
How should we treat highly intelligent creatures that many researchers claim are capable of language and culture? Should great apes ever be in captivity? What are the rules for research,
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