Diamandopoulos, Athanasios (Author)
Goudas, P. (Author)
Vesalius
Volume: 11, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 61-63
The views on the biological relat ionship between human and ape are polar ized. One end is summar ized by the axiom that "mon is the third chimpanzee", a thesis put forwar d in an indi rect way initially by Charles Darwi n in the 19th century.The other is a ver y moder n concept that al though similar, the human and ape genomes are dist inct ly different. We have compared these two views on the subject wi th the stance of the ancient medical wr i t e r Galen.There is a striking resemblance between cur rent and ancient opinion on three key issues. Firstly, on the fact that man and apes are similar but not identical. Secondly, on the influence of such debates on fields much wider than biology.And finally, on the comparat ive usefulness of apes as a subst i tute for human anatomy and physiology studies.
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