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Title: The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity by Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, Douglas Adams, Jane Goodall ISBN: 0-312-11818-X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: good collection
Comment: "The Great Ape Project" is a good collection of reasons for supporting the project of the same name.

Rating: 5
Summary: Tearing down the walls that divide
Comment: This book is an excellent source of information provided by a variety of scientific and legal experts. The authors show us the rich emotional and cultural lives of non-human great apes. Researchers who use other apes because of their genetic and psychological complexity ought to be required to read this book. Indeed, the one flaw of this book is the fact that a few chapters are the works of researchers who have used, for example, the linguistic talents of other apes to advance their own careers. Other sections of the book, including a chapter vividly comparing the non-human and human slave trade, and a description of the case for legal rights based on the personhood of hominids, underscore that flaw with haunting and brilliant sensitivity.

Overall, The Great Ape Project lucidly demonstrates the unconscionability of continuing to use the other apes for experimentation, for teaching, for trade in their body parts, and in the entertainment industry. Moreover, it inspires us to broaden our definition of slavery to include our nearest living relatives.

Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling Case for Sentience Rights
Comment: The contributors make a compelling case for sentience rights for higher primates based on strong empirical evidence and demonstrable harm caused to other higher primates that infringes on their rights claims as sentient beings. I would ask if the authors might consider a similar work that expands the case for cetacean rights on the same basis, though.

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