NATURE MAGAZINE PUBLISHES

An article at Nature magazine, as informed by newspapers today, demonstrates that the difference between humans and chimpanzees in increasingly subtle. If chimpanzees had the human ability of talking, they would have had already evolved to convert in one of us. The biggest limitation of chimpanzees to evolve, learn, develop and transmit knowledge is the lack of talk. The same that led the different hominids that lived in the last 6 millions years to get extinct and modern Homo sapiens is still alive. It is believed that one gene – FOXP2 – was the secret that allowed the old Homos to become the modern Homos, and to develop the current human civilization.

We have been insisting on this in the last 10 years: the difference between chimpanzees and humans is very small. They have the same brain, the same body and the same body. Why they did not evolved and only us reached our current level? Talking was the explanation. Primitive speechless humans, just like chimpanzees today, used to communicate thorough gestures and sounds. He did not evolve and luckily was able to survive. The mutation on gene FOXP2 allowed him to start to talk and made him evolved in a terrific way.

When we think that our brothers chimpanzees are being ignored, massacred, slavered and tortured by us, because they can not talk, we understand the injustice humanity committed against them. Reparation is needed by the acceptance, once for all, of their Homos condition and their basic needs in our society.