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“Any human being, who has given up the power of listening, critical thinking, and learning beyond what they already know, is en route to de-evolving into an ape. The only difference is that apes are cute...”

Learning Evolution Human Learn Ape

Author:Rishabh Dubey

“Why are all apes hairy and the human is relatively hairless? It is our closest genetic relative.”

Human Closest Monkeys Apes Monkey Ape Hairy Genetic Relative Relatively Hairless Why Are

Author:Steven Magee

“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to me. But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I would have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.”

People Men Humanity Mankind Human Man Woman Sapiens Ape

Author:Cari Linneaus

“Dammit—the overgrown ape. Just when I’d started to manipulate Echo back into my corner, her loser boyfriend swooped in and draped an arm around her shoulder.”

Manipulate Boyfriend Luke Noah Hutchins Echo Emerson Ape

Book:Pushing the Limits

Source: Pushing the Limits

“He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in - anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the Stone Age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Night falls and the other apes gather! There in the front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking! His poker night! - you call it - this party of apes! Somebody growls - some creature snatches at something - the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long way from beng made in God's image, but Stella - my sister - there has been some progress since then! Such things as art - as poetry and music - such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tendered feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march towards what-ever it is we're approaching . . . Don't - don't hang back with the brutes!”

Evolution Abuse Primitive Primal Regression Ape Blanche Dubois Ape Like Stanley Kowalski

Book:A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“We humans will be diminished if we cannot even protect the animals closest to us, who share almost all of our genes, and who differ from us only by degree.”

Humans Extinction Homo Sapiens Bonobo Ape Chimp Hominin

Book:Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

“[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side] A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”

Inspirational Science Purpose Nature Evolution Prejudice Discussion Rhetoric Preference Ridicule Question Obstruction Scientific Aimless Religious Prejudice Ape

Author:Thomas Huxley