The Planet of the Apes is the Third One from the Sun

Cross-posted from Pharyngula:

Or in other words, the old–more or less Darwinian–survival game continued even after intelligence increased. What a shock! There might have been apes who didn’t care about survival, but they, you know, didn’t survive. We aren’t what we are because “we’re apes” but because we’ve managed to survive. No species survived by being nice.

Glen Davidson