 great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the four non-human members of the hominidae or great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.bhagwat, s. b. foundation of geology. global vision, 2009, pp.&nbsp;232â235: ::"the hominidae form a taxonomic family, including five extant genera: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans." :groves, colin p. "great apes: the conflict of gene-pools, conservation and personhood" in emily rousham, leonard freedman, and rayma pervan. perspectives in human biology: humans in the australasian region. world scientific, 1996, p. 31: ::"the recognition that we as a species are not phylogenetically separated from other animals, but are nested within the primate group known as the great apes, is no longer controversial. goodman (1963) proposed on this basis to include the great apes (orang utan, gorilla and chimpanzee) in the family hominidate, a view revived by groves (1986) and increasingly adopted since then. increasingly, too, the vernacular term 'great apes' has come to be used as a pure synonym for hominidae, so that humans are also 'great apes.' the only remaining systemic controversy seems to be whether chimpanzees and gorillas together form the sister-group of humans, or chimpanzees and humans together constitute the sister-group of gorillas." :karcher, karen. "the great ape project" in marc bekoff (ed.). the encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare. greenwood, 2009, pp. 185â187: ::"the great ape project (gap) seeks to extend the scope of three basic moral principles to all members of what the gap founders call the five great ape species (humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans)." advocates include primatologists jane goodall and dawn prince-hughes, evolutionary biologist richard dawkins, philosopher peter singer, and legal scholar steven wise.goodall, jane in paola cavalieri & peter singer (eds.) the great ape project: equality beyond humanity. st martin's griffin, 1994. :dawkins, richard. "gaps in the mind" in paola cavalieri & peter singer (eds.) the great ape project: equality beyond humanity. st martin's griffin, 1994. :cavalieri, paola & singer, peter (eds.) the great ape project: equality beyond humanity. st martin's griffin, 1994. :motavalli, jim. "rights from wrongs. a movement to grant legal protection to animals is gathering force", e magazine, march/april 2003. ==early legislation== on february 28, 2007 the parliament of the balearic islands, an autonomous community of spain, passed the wo
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