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Thread #139650   Message #3216093
Posted By: Mrrzy
31-Aug-11 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Subject: RE: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Goodness, kindness and charity etc are all hard-wired too - we ARE a social ape.

Oh Bill - no more "higher" and "lower" since we got rid of the ladder metaphor for evolution - We Pedants prefer Older and Younger species - we are young. Of course, bonobos and chimps are younger, since they split from each other after the Hominidae split off from the rest of the apes... so that doesn't put us at the edge of any diagram... but that's OK with me!

But you can still (or, rather, again) use the word Primitive, since it means Like the first, which doesn't have any judgmentalicity (?) to it.