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Chimps Head for Retirement
In 1871, the now-extinct Hornet magazine published a cartoon of Charles Darwin looking like a human-ape chimera. It was not meant kindly. We might suppose that progressive Victorian thinkers would have embraced chimps, gorillas, orangs, etc. as newly-found cousins. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment
Tagged animal rights, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, St. Francis, Thomas Berry
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