Dahleen Glanton: Death of Koko, the signing gorilla, reminds us what it means to be an exceptional human being
by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune
Jun 26, 2018
3 minutes
Koko, the signing gorilla, made me uncomfortable.
She was too intelligent, too intuitive, too human. I was wary of her, yet in awe of her.
What disturbed me most is what Koko represented. She was the antithesis of my Protestant upbringing. It was impossible to read about her or watch videos of her and not wonder whether the human species had evolved from primates like her.
For someone with a Southern Baptist background such as mine, the concept of evolution goes
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