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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

Today's nonhuman apes don't represent earlier stages in human development. Our common-ape like ancestor lived about 15 million years ago. About six million years ago, human and chimpanzee evolution parted. We should react with equal revulsion to the idea of demonstrating humanness" (110).