Are Humans Apes?

Jerry Coyne, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Chicago, has written a rather nasty post at Why Evolution Is True about another professor, biological anthropologist Jonathan Marks, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The sniping began when Marks posted an article rejecting the use of the word "ape" to refer to humans.

But the dispute is really one about semantics. Both Marks and Coyne would agree that we belong to the same clade as apes do. (A clade is a grou...