The modern gorilla species, the western and eastern gorillas, are estimated to have diverged approximately 1.75 million years ago. However, recent studies suggest that there was an interbreeding event between an extinct gorilla population and eastern gorillas around 40,000 years ago, leaving a genetic legacy in present-day eastern gorillas.
- Last Updated: 3 May 2024
- Categories: Hominid (Not Us)
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“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
- Aristotle
- 345 BCE
Holism
TAKE-AWAY: Aristotle’s insight challenges us to reexamine our understanding of complexity. When individual parts converge, something novel emerges. The whole transcends its components, revealing new patterns, properties, and potentialities. Do we have a soul or do we emerge from the parts of the mind?
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