We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
We are apes - we should be climbing.