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Culturally, the relief would be profound. No more conflicted feelings at the zoo, watching an orangutan smoke a cigarette thrown by a tourist and recognizing the boredom in its eyes. No more queasy sense of trespass when watching a nature documentary’s tender scene of a mother chimp grooming her daughter. No more Planet of the Apes to trouble our sleep with visions of a justly conquered future. Without anthropoids, our myths remain clean: the clever fox, the loyal dog, the noble lion—none of them stare back with our eyes. We could return to a pre-Darwinian comfort, a solipsistic Eden where we are truly, utterly alone at the top.

Without the great apes, the debates that paralyze modern bioethics evaporate. No more hand-wringing over invasive medical testing on creatures who recognize themselves in mirrors. No more awkward courtroom battles over whether a bonobo named Kanzi deserves habeas corpus. No more uncomfortable Sunday school questions: “If chimpanzees have 99% of our DNA, why didn’t they build the Sistine Chapel?” The answer, in an anthropoid-free world, is simple: because they were never there. The ladder of being becomes a smooth, unbroken pole from sponge to human, with no disconcerting, hairy faces peering down from the rung just below. anthropoid free

On the night of December 28, 1941, a Halifax bomber dropped two groups of Czechoslovak soldiers into the snow-covered landscapes of the Protectorate. Among them were Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, the men chosen for Anthropoid. Culturally, the relief would be profound

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