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fertile crescent,
281
,
284

Flintstones,
146

Fodor, Jerry,
6
,
197

Forbidden Zone,
69
,
80
,
151
,
155
,
214
,
266
,
285
,
286

Fouts, Roger,
266

Francione, Gary,
80

Franciscus, James,
151

Franco, James,
77
,
193
,
198–99

Freud, Sigmund,
237

frontier thesis,
150

Galen, Dr.,
139

Galileo Galilei,
ix
,
49
,
196

Garden of Eden,
149

genes,
29
,
157
,
160
,
185
,
186
; therapy,
157

genetics,
160
,
186
; and race,
249
; counseling,
160
; determinism,
185
; diversity,
57
; engineering,
53
,
54
,
55
,
57
; enhancement,
53
,
56–57
,
61–63
,
157
,
173
,
177

Goldsmith, Jerry,
220–24
,
226

Goodman, Nelson,
11–12

gorillas,
33
,
125
,
127–28
,
137
,
147
,
167
; in Ape City,
127
,
131–33
,
137
,
251
; silverback,
188

Gould, Dana,
254

Gould, Stephen Jay,
154

Great Ape Project,
267

Green Belt,
145

Greene, Eric,
27
,
223
,
246

Griffin, Donald,
8

Hasslein, Otto,
89
,
95
,
102
,
103
,
116
; on the nature of time,
119–120
; Curve Theory of time travel,
44–45
,
99
,
106

Hauser, Marc,
34

Heinlein, Robert,
28

Hess, Elizabeth,
266

Heston, Charlton,
144
,
150
,
153
,
214
,
286
; balls of,
140
; Hobbes, Thomas,
143
,
144
,
145
,
146
,
189
;
Leviathan
,
143
,
179

Holbrook, Hal,
254

Hollywood, Classical,
219–220
; traditional,
216
,
223

Homo errans
,
282

homosexuality,
160
,
185

Honorius, Dr.,
129
,
131
,
135
,
140
,
196

human nature,
62
,
143
,
181
,
182
,
185
; John Locke on,
88
; pre-Darwinian view of,
180
;
Rod Serling on,
144
,
146
,
152
; Thomas Hobbes on,
145
,
179
; Jean-Jacques Rousseau on,
148

humans,
131
,
135–36
,
141–42
,
156
,
261
; as pinnacle of creation,
182
; captive,
168
; empathy of,
179
; evolution of,
161
,
162
; future,
268
; genetic diversity of,
249
; in
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
,
178
,
186
; lack of soul in,
140
; mutant,
151
,
267
,
268
; similarities to other primates of,
183–84
; sociobiology of,
158

Hume, C.W.,
48

Hume, David,
52
,
160
;
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
,
160

Huxley, Aldous,
289
;
Brave New World
,
212

Icarus,
44

ideological fantasy,
241–43

ideology,
42–43
,
241–42
; Nazi,
41–42
; religious,
43
; scientific,
41–52

intelligence,
26
; and language,
15
,
23
; dangerous,
22
; instinctive,
280–82
; measurement of,
21
,
22
,
24
; octopus,
20
; of nature,
280
,
283
; quotient (IQ),
17
,
85
,
185

interests,
68
,
80
; ape,
84
,
80
; chimpanzee,
171
; equal consideration of,
81
,
84
,
87
,
89
; group,
83
; human,
82
,
83
,
89
,
81
; moral weight of,
84
; of other species,
95
self-,
178

Jacobs, Arthur P.,
200
,
245
,
252

Jacobs, Steven,
55
,
56
,
63

Juengst, Eric,
54

Julius,
145

justice,
60
,
93
,
139
,
140
; City of,
126–28
; social,
253

Kant, Immanuel,
59
,
178
;
Critique of Judgment
,
215

Kass, Leon,
61–62

Keepers of the Divine Bomb,
32
,
34
,
289

Kennedy, John F.,
150
,
151

Koko,
27
,
33
,
271

Kubrick, Stanley,
200
,
226
,
269
;
2001: A Space Odyssey
,
200
,
226
,
254

La Gloria, Mexico,
286

Lacan, Jacques,
232–38
,
240

Landon, Dodge,
16
,
188–89
,
257

Landon, John,
44
,
87
,
136
,
146
,
148
,
152

language,
15–16
,
23
,
175
,
209
; and intelligence,
15
,
17
,
23–24
; and mind,
8
; and silence,
25
; and thought,
5–6
; barrier,
18
; shared,
3
,
4
; tyranny of,
16–18

Laurel and Hardy,
151

Lawgiver, The,
143
,
290

linguistics,
236

Lloyd Morgan's Canon,
35

Locke, John,
88
,
275

logic,
44–45
,
118
,
210

logical positivism,
44–46
,
52

Long Island,
146
,
148

Lovejoy, E.A.,
180

Lull, Raimond
180

makeup,
198
,
200
,
201
,
247
; digital,
195
,
200

manifest destiny,
150

March of the Wooden Soldiers
(movie),
151

Matrix, The
(movie franchise),
287

MacDonald,
x
,
26
,
30
,
94

McDowall, Roddy,
144
,
149
,
200

Mead, George Herbert,
290

meaning,
45
,
213–220
; in music,
213–14
,
215
,
218–220
; and syntax,
258
; logical positivist view of,
45
; of symbols,
20
; semiotic view of,
236–39

Meredith, Burgess,
148

Mérou, Ulysse,
31
,
32
,
33
,
112
,
114

Mesopotamia,
284

meta-ethics,
60

metaphysics, speculative,
44

Mill, John Stuart,
8
,
58

Mills, Charles W.,
251
,
252
,
253

Milo, Dr.,
25
,
31
,
38
,
101

Milo, Baby,
87
,
103
,
106
,
116
,
121
,
291

minds,
6
; and environment,
12
; animal,
48
,
259
; as habitat relation,
290
; of nature,
280
; problem of other,
6–8
; rational,
139

mindreading,
4–5
,
8–11
,
32–38
,
288

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory,
18

missing link,
135

modernism,
215–17

Mooney, Paul,
252

Moore, G.E.,
207–211

moral considerability,
71–80

moral status,
19
,
74–82
; of apes,
265–66
; of humans,
265

Morsi, Mohamed,
x
music, instrumental,
213
,
215
;

modernist,
215–18
,
220
,
221
,
224–27
; twelve–tone,
221
,
222
,
224
,
226

mutually assured destruction,
287

Narcissus,
281
,
286

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques,
219

neoteny,
279–283
,
291–92

New Frontier,
150
,
151

New Hollywood,
216

New York,
146
,
148
,
151
,
267
,
287

Newton, Sir Isaac,
ix
,
44
; laws of motion of,
107

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,
283

Nova,
4
,
150
,
152
,
223
; as feral child,
187
; communicative capacities of,
4
,
10
,
18
; intelligence of,
24–25
,
80
; as love interest,
32
,
91
; death of,
89
,
276

nuclear war,
95
,
148
,
149
,
151
,
158
,
286

nuclear weapons,
62
,
156
,
273

Nussbaum, Martha,
83

Operation Desert Storm,
284

orangutans,
125
,
127
,
129–131
,
133–35
,
137
,
139
,
147

Oroonoko Indians,
148

Orwell, George,
288–89
;
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(novel),
289

Oscars;
see
Academy Awards

overhypothesis,
11–12

Paine, Thomas,
152

Pallas, Peter Simon
180

Peirce, Charles,
219
,
282–83
,
290

physics,
99–109
; equations of,
113–14
; laws of,
101–02
; time-symmetry of,
101
,
115

Pinto, Freida,
199

Planet of the Apes
(1968 movie),
3
,
41
,
67
,
125–142
; as controlled hallucination,
211–12
; evolutionary issues in,
154
; message of,
163
;
music for,
213–227
; scariness of,
167
; Serling devices in,
148–150
,
151

Planet of the Apes
(2001 movie),
82
,
87

Planet of the Apes
(novel); see
Boulle, Pierre

Planet of the Apes
(franchise),
ix–xi
,
3
; anti-speciesist message of,
86–77
; as cautionary tale,
95
,
142
,
277
; as story of moral progress
84–85
; inconsistencies in,
105–06
; lessons of,
26
; prejudice in,
16
; political themes in,
201
; racial issues in,
245–254

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