If we value humans because humans are similar to us, and we find that animals are more similar than previously thought, it would follow that we would start valuing animals more.
If we are talking about kin selection, that doesn’t really follow—members of other species are very distantly related to us—and barely qualify as kin at all. Nor do they typically share memes with us—so their memetic relatedness with us is near zero as well.
If we are talking about kin selection, that doesn’t really follow—members of other species are very distantly related to us—and barely qualify as kin at all. Nor do they typically share memes with us—so their memetic relatedness with us is near zero as well.