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"We share over 99% of our active genes with chimpanzees and gorillas. "The Great Ape Project "casts a disturbing light on how we have treated our closest relative. It challenges us to reassess many of our ethical assumptions." --"Carl Sagan, coauthor of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"

"A powerful work of moral vision that manages to maintain a balance between logic and passion." --"The Washington Post Book World (front page)"

"A thoroughly engaging collection of polemics and reflections." --"San Francisco Chronicle"

"This book may prove to be one of the most subversive published in English this year." --"The Independent"

"What the contributors to "The Great Ape Project "remind us that our nearest cousins on the evolutionary tree...can suffer in ways very much like the ways in which we suffer...We can damage them in the way we damage human beings." --"Alan Ryan, Professor of Politics, Princeton University"