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From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: animal vs human rights, morality
Message-ID: <6084@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 21:03:29 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.6084
Posted: Fri Feb  1 21:03:29 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Feb-85 02:20:42 EST
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Reply-To: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Keywords: animal rights
Summary: 

This article bases its argument on the continuum of features between
animals and humans.  I know of two features humans have for which
there is such a great quantitative difference between the average human
and the nearest animal that it may be considered a qualitative difference.
One is the ration between body mass and brain mass.  The other is the ratio
between metabolism and lifespan.  I am not sure of the relevant statistics
but at least for mammals, I believe these are reletively constant with
the sole exception being human beings.  -David Sher