On Nov 26, 2004, at 12:23 PM, John Moynihan wrote:
I just finished rereading all of Dr.Brin's Uplift novels (thanks again, they were great) and a question occurred to me concerning chimps and humans.
Since humans and chimps are from the same planet and have 98% of their DNA identical to one another would The Galactics even consider the two as seperate?
I mean when a Kanten or a Soro looked at the two, even to the point of looking at the genetics, wouldn't they simply think they were looking at two variations of the same animal?
Hmm, why would they? I mean, you'd have to go by more than appearance -- there's behavior as well. While we share a lot of behavior traits with our simian cousins, we do have some characteristics (organized language, technology) that they lack.
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