Follow
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to me. But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I would have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.
—Carl von Linné, founder of Taxonomy
This post begins the second part of the subjects of this web, dealing with the second question—what are we?— in Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian painting: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Paul_Gauguin_-_D%27ou_venons-nous.jpg.
