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Article: Chimp change: How generous should humans be with their genus?
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2003
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, June 3:
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Move over, people. Bonzo is in the house! Or might be soon, if some scientists get their way.
We humans are the only extant members of the genus named Homo. Chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans are our closest relatives, but they are in different genuses.
Who decided all this? Scientists did, mapping out the supposed evolutionary relationships among living things. The family tree of life gets revised all the time as we learn more and more. And the genomic revolution has us redrawing that tree frantically. New genetic tools are debunking a ...