Today I'll be writing about a controversial topic, and that topic is related to calling the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes or Homo troglodytes.
I got to say, I was influenced by a book that I'm reading at the moment and that book is: The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, from the writer Jared Diamond. This author in this book writes about the third chimpanzee which are the humans (with the regular chimpanzee and the pygmy chimpanzee being the other two), more specifically he writes about how we became what we are in an evolutionary point of view and how we are gonna destroy our planet, the other races and even our race if we don't change the way we look at our surroundings.

All that I'm asking is for you to think about something that a lot of people defend that is to think what it would be like to call the chimps Homo Troglodytes and not Pan Troglodytes. Can you think about the difference that that would have? You would enter a zoo and see a chimp in really bad conditions or being mistreated. Or you would read about studies that have been done, using chimps as subjects, injecting them with something that will kill them, slowly, painfully and the enterprises saying that it is for the development of science and healthcare. How would you feel when you're son that learned in school that the chimps are called Homo Troglodytes and that humans are called Homo Sapiens Sapiens asked you why are this almost humans, so similar to us being treated and killed in this ways when we cannot do this to humans?
When does it change from scientific tests to murder?