(vi) Special events travelling exhibition on great apes (5)

And we share our origins with a handful of the living great apes.

(a) The World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation which provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about all the six species of great apes chimpanzee, bonobo, Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, eastern gorilla and western gorilla.

Wyatt s reluctance to join in the exploitation of great apes is understandable, given that the film itself tells the story of apes rising up in response to oppression from dominant humans. The central human character, Will Rodman (played by James Franco), is a scientist seeking a cure for Alzheimer s disease who experiments on apes.

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A Planet for All Apes

And it is important to remember that all of these great apes have come on as long and as interesting evolutionary journey as we ourselves have today.

And if you can do it with monkeys though the great leap in trying to genetically manipulate is actually between monkeys and apes if they can do it in monkeys, they can probably figure out how to do it in apes, which means they can do it in human beings.

Knowing, that's what distinguishes us from the apes.

Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes

Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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Learning became reinforced. Bands of apes ventured into the open.

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And it is quite clear that apes originated on the African continent.

And until 30,000 years ago, at least three upright walking apes shared the planet Earth.

When they crossed the limit of the prohibition, We made them turn into detested apes.

When they crossed the limit of the prohibition, We made them turn into detested apes.

Well, not quite. Because Darwin was talking about our distant ancestry, our common ancestry with apes.

The ancestor of the apes stayed in the trees our ancestors went out onto the plain.

Consequently when they rebelled against the command to refrain, We said to them, Be apes, despised!

Consequently when they rebelled against the command to refrain, We said to them, Be apes, despised!

Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, Be despicable apes.

Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, Be despicable apes.

And when they persisted in pursuing that which had been forbidden We said 'Become despised apes.'

And when they persisted in pursuing that which had been forbidden We said 'Become despised apes.'

MELBOURNE Two new movies released this month one a science fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary raise the issue of our relations with our closest non human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.

When they persisted in doing what they had been forbidden, We said to them Become (like) apes despised.

The apes that left at that time ended up in Southeast Asia, became the gibbons and the orangutans.

When they persisted in doing what they had been forbidden, We said to them Become (like) apes despised.

And when they turned in disdain from that forbidding We said to them, 'Be you apes, miserably slinking!'

And when they turned in disdain from that forbidding We said to them, 'Be you apes, miserably slinking!'

And you surely knew those of you who violated the Sabbath. We said to them, Be despicable apes!

And you surely knew those of you who violated the Sabbath. We said to them, Be despicable apes!

When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to them Be ye apes, despised and rejected.

When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to them Be ye apes, despised and rejected.

You have surely known of those amongst you who transgressed the Sabbath. We said to them 'Be apes, despised'

And when they had scornfully persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them 'Be apes, despised'

You have surely known of those amongst you who transgressed the Sabbath. We said to them 'Be apes, despised'

And when they had scornfully persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them 'Be apes, despised'

So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, Be apes, despised.

So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, Be apes, despised.

You certainly knew about those among you who were transgressors on the Sabbath. We commanded them, Become detested apes,

You certainly knew about those among you who were transgressors on the Sabbath. We commanded them, Become detested apes,