The surprise in Jonathan Leaf’s The Primate Myth is that our relationship to the apes may be more distant than we think. The stakes are higher than when we play a round of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. If we are closest to the apes above all creatures, then we must, the evolutionary logic goes, look back down our evolutionary track and find our image in theirs, not least because Darwin’s children insist that we are not going to find it in religion. Hence the search for our better nature in the more appealing aspects of chimp life: their resemblances of physiognomy, their ability to drink tea from cups and saucers, the male gorilla’s custom of alleviating the boredom of an afternoon at the zoo by publicly masturbating and throwing feces at the glass.
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