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Today’s Science Times includes an article about Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, biologists who study the mental and social lives of baboons. Why baboons?

Reading a baboons mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence. As Darwin jotted down in a notebook of 1838, He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Earlier on bioethics.net:
+ Evolution and morality
+ Evolution and morality, continued

-Greg Dahlmann

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