>In a message dated 11/26/2004 7:02:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >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?
The answer is Yes, they are separate species, even if the Galactics don't like it. In fact, I think that Dr. Brin actually addresses this issue at one point in one of his Uplift novels. Basically at some point while noting that Earth has a ridiculous number of "Upliftable" species between chimps, gorillas, humans (if some have their way!), and beta-orangatangs.... without even mentioning dolphins, whales, dogs, maybe seals, etc. it is mentioned that this is because in most Galactic worlds - the common ancestor of humans-chimps-gorillas-orangatangs would have been uplifted long before that species could have diversified into four Upliftable species. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
