Chimps Are People Too

Danny Wallace is on a mission to convince the world that chimps are people too. He believes the time has come to make our hairy relatives part of the family. Our primate brethren share 99.4% of our DNA and are more closely related to us than they are to gorillas. So shouldn’t they be granted the same rights as people? Armed with the latest scientific evidence, Danny travels the globe to quiz primatologists, philosophers,animal-rights lawyers and chimpanzees to investigate whether or not chimps should be classed as people.The reason for this scientific showdown is simple: if chimps can talk, cook and reason, they must be people, thinks Danny. But some scientists disagree, despite the fact that they are the very people who have discovered that chimps can do these things.