If You Look Into Their [chimpanzees] Eyes,

Cultural Speciation Had Been Crippling To Human Moral And Spiritual Growth. It Had Hindered Freedom Of Thought, Limited Our Thinking, Imprisoned Us In The Cultures Into Which We Had Been Born. . . . These Cultural Mind Prisons. . . . Cultural Speciation Was Clearly A Barrier To World Peace. So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The ‘global Village’ We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance.

When I Began In 1960, Individuality Wasn't An Accepted Thing To Look For; It Was About Species-specific Behaviour. But Animal Behaviour Is Not Hard Science. There's Room For Intuition.

We Started Off With Physical Evolution And Got Our Form. Then We Somehow Developed Language, Which Meant Cultural Evolution Could Race So We Could Change Our Behavior Really Quickly Instead Of Over Hundreds And Hundreds Of Years. And Then Comes Moral Evolution, Which Means We're Not Frightfully Far Along With People. And Maybe We End Up With A Spiritual Evolution, Which Is This Connectedness With The Rest Of The Life Forms On The Planet.

The Least I Can Do Is Speak Out For Those Who Cannot Speak For Themselves.

Chimpanzees, More Than Any Other Living Creature, Have Helped Us To Understand That There Is No Sharp Line Between Humans And The Rest Of The Animal Kingdom. It's A Very Blurry Line, And It's Getting More Blurry All The Time.