Birmingham Salon will be debating just that on 8 December at The Studio, joined by authors Helene Guldberg with her latest book ‘Just Another Ape?’ and Jeremy Taylor discussing ‘Not a Chimp: the hunt to find the genes that make us human’.
Today, the belief that human beings are special is distinctly out of fashion. Almost everyday we are presented with new revelations about how animals are so much more like us than we ever imagined. The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to our closest living relatives – the great apes.
They’ll be discussing issues including whether apes should have rights and how ape communications have been wrongly elevated to the status of human language.
Anyone up for some deep discussion and heavy debating is welcome, the group will meet from 6.30pm – 8.15pm.