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l should have said that chimpanzees
had no part in the destruction of Earth.
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Only the gorillas and the orangutans.
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- What's the difference? You're all monkeys.
- Please! Do not say ''monkey.'' lt is offensive.
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As an archaeologist, l saw history scrolls
which were kept secret from the masses,
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and l suspect that the weapon which
destroyed Earth was man's own invention.
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l do know this. One ofthe reasons
for man's original downfall
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was your peculiar habit
of murdering one another.
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Man destroys man. Apes do not destroy apes.
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Cornelius.
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This is not an interracial hassle,
but a search for facts.
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We do not deny the possibility
of man's decline and fall.
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All we want to find out is how apes rose.
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Well...
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lt began in our prehistory
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- with the plague that fell upon dogs.
- And cats.
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Hundreds and thousands ofthem died.
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Hundreds and thousands
of them had to be destroyed
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in order to prevent the spread of infection.
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- There were dog bonfires.
- Yes.
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And by the time the plague was contained,
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man was without pets.
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Of course, for man this was intolerable.
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l mean, he might kill his brother,
but he could not kill his dog.
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So humans took primitive apes as pets.
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Primitive and dumb, but still 20 times
more intelligent than dogs or cats.
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Correct.
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They were quartered in cages, but they
lived and moved freely in human homes.
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They became responsive
to human speech, and,
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in the course of less than two centuries,
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they progressed from
performing mere tricks
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to performing services.
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Nothing more or less
than a well-trained sheepdog could do.
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Could a sheepdog cook?
Or clean the house?
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Or do the marketing for the groceries with
a list from its mistress? Or wait on tables?