NATURE "Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History" | Excerpt | PBS

[elanxx]

Poor Ham :(

[quicksilver3x3]

How dare they treat him, or any animals, like that.

[00Neven]

and Neil Armstrong took all the credits :D

[judyrusso]

the sheer terror that these chimps must have felt being imprisoned in little boxes for the space program.

[wandap55]

And we are still using these chimps for lab experiments. Isn't time we stopped?

[DNelson4817]

No, the AF is no longer experimenting on the primate facility.

[GBart]

So Yuri Gagarin was the first ape in space, unless you want to count Joseph Kittinger, but he's not official, then Ham, then Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.

[camillajonsson]

So sad, poor chimp!

[BudMan82]

;_; poor little monkey.

[DrSvenDestruction]

he was an great ape. monkeys have tails :)

[alexmagnus1]

Sad.... The intervention of Sapiens destroys the life of Troglodytes. Don't they realize that chimpanzees may be not apes but humans? (just not sapiens)?

[gopherdude]

eh? I thought it the evolution of the homo sapiens that got rid of the neanderthal's. Also neanderthal's wern't addaptible enough to cope with the changing climate, or anything for that matter.

[alexmagnus1]

Neanderthals were not predecessors of sapiens but their contemporaries (died out for unknown reason) And chimpanzees appeared before both kinds of human, but they are humans themseves (Homo troglodytes).

[godofthunder90]

Actually some want to include chimps into the Homo genus.

(Humans is apes too!)

[GBart]

I'm one of them. No offense John Glenn, but Enos was the first person to orbit the Earth.

[braindoodle89]

I agree. There is very little reason other than peoples' distate for the idea that prevents humans and chimpanzees from being in the same genus.