Tag: chimpanzees
Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?
Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa.
Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?
For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true?
Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!
Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway.
New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”
Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all.
Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust
Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous?