Remember when I talked about the current state of using chimpanzee’s in biomedical research? If not, let me refresh your memory. About five months ago, I over-viewed the reasons as to why the United States is not using chimps as a model organism in biomedical research. At the core of it all, the issue for [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Philosophy’
April 28, 2007
In Austria, Hiasl, the Chimpanzee, has been a denied legal guardian
Remember when, I asked y’all about great ape human rights, and brought up how Austrian courts will judge on it earlier this month?
I’ve been keeping track of this news, and caught a News @ Nature piece titled, “Chimp denied a legal guardian,” which reports that,
“An Austrian judge turned down a request this week to appoint [...]
April 7, 2007
The Discover Magazine Interview with Jane Goodall
Exactly two weeks ago, I was standing in the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico reading the latest Discover magazine interview with Jane Goodall. I was thoroughly captivated but it didn’t warrant me to spend the outrageously inflated airport prices for the magazine. I’m glad to share that Discover has put [...]
April 4, 2007
Should Chimps have human rights?
Last night, I caught news that Brazilian courts are considering giving chimpanzees human rights, and following suite, Austria may as well give non-human great apes human rights. This may sound alright and dandy, maybe even give some empathy and fuel towards the conservation effort of Great Apes, but I don’t like this news one bit.
Why you ask?
Well, I don’t [...]
March 19, 2007
On primate behavior and tracing back the origins of morality
Personally, I have my own beef with sociobiology a.k.a. evolutionary psychology. I have yet to see it venture from a story telling, subjective science. But my issues don’t prevent me from acknowledging and respecting progressive work done in this subfield of behavioral studies and primatology.
I don’t know where Nick Wade truly stands about sociobiology, but [...]
