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Seeing Ourselves as Primates
- Ethics & the Environment
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 7, Number 2, Autumn 2002
- pp. 60-103
- 10.1353/een.2002.0019
- Article
- Additional Information
There has been a marked expansion in our human knowledge in recent decades, and much of this new information about ourselves and our world has yet to be integrated into our human self-image. I maintain that understanding how we fit within the spectrum of lifeforms as the primates that we are will enable us to take a more active role in choosing ecologically responsible behavior and will allow us to address more effectively our major problems of overpopulation, overconsumption, and militarism.