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| Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Modern
biologists frequently say that man is not special, that we are just a species
among many. Thus, for instance, Colin Tudge writes this:
Phylogenetically
we are an outpost, a tiny figment of life, just as Earth is a cosmological
nonentity that no other intelligent life-form in the Universe would bother to
put in their celestial maps.
(The variety of life, Oxford
University Press, 2000).
This is
just the indiscriminate application of a pseudo-scientific dogma that few
biologists would dare contradict, which can be expressed in one of the
following equivalent ways:
- All species of living beings
are equivalent; no one is superior to the others.
- There are no criteria that make
it possible to compare the importance of different species.
- Man is not superior to chimps,
ants, bacteria...
- Evolution has no direction.
