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30 - Sister Species

Lessons from the Chimpanzee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt
Kevin D. Hunt
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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The centuries-long discovery of the chimpanzee, its ecology, anatomy, and behavior, has consisted of a slow-motion, step-by-step revelation that humans and chimpanzees are more, then still more, then still more similar than expected. Yet this reversal has its origin in the perception that humans were a thing apart with respect to other species. Humans and chimpanzees, despite their micro-similarities, have macro differences as well; chimpanzees have fur; their arms are longer than their legs; their brains are smaller.

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Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
 , pp. 517 - 535
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Sister Species
  • Kevin D. Hunt, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Chimpanzee
  • Online publication: 10 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339916.030
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  • Sister Species
  • Kevin D. Hunt, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Chimpanzee
  • Online publication: 10 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339916.030
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  • Sister Species
  • Kevin D. Hunt, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Chimpanzee
  • Online publication: 10 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339916.030
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