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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 28 2006,15:42   

Re "is there any reason why a Martian Linnaeus, say, would assign us to two different genera?"

I read someplace that an objective observer would have put chimp and human in the same genus to start with, but the decision was affected by politics (or do I mean ego?), or something to that effect.

Henry

  
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