The Great Ape Project Equality Beyond Humanity [Paperback]

A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes.

The Great Ape Projectlooks forward to a new stage in the development of the community of equals, whereby the great apes-chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans-will actually receive many of the same protections and rights that are already accorded to humans.

This profound collection of thirty-one essays by the world's most distinguished observers of free-living apes make up a uniquely satisfying whole, blending observation and interpretation in a highly persuasive case for a complete reassessment of the moral status of our closest kin.

Preface

A Declaration on Great Apes

I Encounters with Free-living Apes

ChimpanzeesBridging the Gap by Jane Goodall

Meeting a Gorilla by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

Chimpanzees Are Always New to Me by Toshisada Nishida

II Conversations with Apes

Chimpanzees' Use of Sign Language by Roger S. Fouts and Deborah H. Fouts

Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest by H. Lyn White Miles

The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas by Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon

III Similarity and Difference

Gaps in the Mind by Richard Dawkins

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

Common Sense, Cognitive Ethology and Evolution by Marc Bekoff

What's in a Classification? by R.I.M. Dunbar

Apes and the Idea of Kindrid by Stephen R. L. Clark

Ambiguous Apes by Raymond Corbey

Spirits Dressed in Furs? by Adriaan Kortlandt

IV Ethics

Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots by Colin McGinn

Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Apes by James Rachels

Profoudly Intellectually Disabled Humans and the Great Apes: A Comparison by Christoph Anst?tz

Who's Like Us? by Heta H?yry and Matti H?yry

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