Edward Tyson wrote The Anatomy of a Pigmie, Compared with that of a Monkey, and Ape, and a Man, which was based on one of the first dissections of a chimpanzee in Europe. He used the relatively new techniques of comparative anatomy to argue that chimpanzees were very similar to humans. Its way to say that Tyson was working well within the mainstream paradigm of the time, the great chain of being. This view holds that all living things are ranked in a specific order, from lowest to the highest. There were three major problems that the great chain scholars questioned over the years. First, was the actual rankings itself. The second was that most nature does nit appear hierarchical, but rather variations on themes. The third problem had to do
