Offending Monkeys

Recently read about an atrocious scientific finding in the newspaper.

Humans and monkeys have similar brain networks

Using "resting state" functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) it was found that human and monkey brains have highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution. Patterns of connectivity were examined.

Isn't it a finding offensive to the Monkeys? Just because monkey kingdom does not own any labs or hire any scientists, it does not mean that we humiliate them with such comparisons with humans. Howmuchever high-sounding words like fMRI we use, this argument will fall flat, the next minute you see a monkey and a human, and compare their brain networks!!

OK, probably, they had similar brain networks looooong back; but along the way something got messed up. As is the case with many other networks that man invented, these monkey brain networks also got clogged and took their own direction. Just because humands had started walking straight, it does not mean anything; We invented arms to fight each other in massive scale; Do you think, if our brain networks were the least similar to monkeys, would we have done anything appalling like this?

And, worst, we use our ancestors for all kinds of scientific studies like this to prove that we are like them! No way. Fortunately, monkeys cannot read and write - another sign that their networks are different from (and superior than) ours; so they must be oblivious of this stupid study. Else, they might be wondering what have I done to land up in such humiliation!

It is as good as saying Elephants got their genes from cats, just because their tamil names sound similar.