With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans. — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
The chimps love holidays - in fact Tatu actually anticipates them and asks about them. — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we… — Roger Fouts Copy Share
If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves… — Roger Fouts Copy Share
With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image