Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.