That's one of the things I find most interesting about this. If we had a clutch of Neanderthals walking around, surely that would accelerate the process of extending some form of personhood to all the great apes? The more plainly the soft continuum of sentience is, the harder it is to say humans occupy some magical special place in the world.
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