GOD at the top, followed by the angels, then we humans: that was the pecking order at the top of the Great Chain of Being. Then came the apes and various classes of “lesser” non-human animals, and plants. It’s a hierarchy that has been in trouble ever since Darwin’s day, and now you could be forgiven for thinking the great chain is about to dissolve foreverin a vast sea of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
In case you missed the news, scientists in the US have carried out the most extensive comparison of human and chimp genes to date (see…
