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Want to Understand Mortality? Look to the Chimps
- loup-vaillant 13y agoReading the poignant description of Pansy’s death, I recalled a quote that captures my feelings quite accurately: This shouldn't ought to exist.
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- UbuntuJon 13y agoChimps commit brutal murders of their own kind (is murder only murder when it's a killing of your own species?) and are very violent. Completely irrelevant to this story but thought I'd throw it in there.
- maratd 13y ago> Chimps commit brutal murders of their own kind As opposed to human beings?
- marcosdumay 13y agoNo, exactly like human beings. That's the point. They use tools, make wars, and create words.
- boneheadmed 13y agoIt is interesting that the ancient Hebrews believed that certain animal species possessed "soulish" qualities or qualities that expressed emotion, will, mind, and the ability to form relationships with each other. The word nephesh is applied in this way to both humans and certain animals.