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Subject: better? or

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Date Posted: 17:38:41 07/20/01 Fri
In reply to: JeffF 's message, "What about?" on 06:28:58 07/20/01 Fri

different?

Here's something I JUSt came across in my reading last night and it is SO on point!:

"The Catholic Church. . . saw the universe as vertically arranged bvetween heaven and earth. From this perspective, it made sense to speak of "higher" and "lower" forms of life, with humans being closest to the deity. Via philosophy, this way of thinking permeated all of the social sicences and humanities, where it still lingers, even though biology has made it absolutely clear that the idea of a linear progression among life forms is mistaken. Every organism fits on the phylogenetic tree without being above or below anything else. Biologists make distinctions betweeen organisms that do well or are extinct, that are specialized or generalized, or that multiply slowly or rapidly, but they never look at one organism as a model that others strive for or that is inherently superior."

from The Ape and The Sushi Master, by Frans DeWaal pp.81-82,

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