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What else?

- Yes. - Genetics.

Ever since we are able to analyze DNA molecules,

we found that the discrepancy between their molecules and ours

is just of one percent. That means that from a genetic point of view,

there is a bigger difference between say a wolf and a German Shepherd dog than

between... that monkey and me.

Any other suggestions? No? All right.

in such circumstances, we no longer have any reason to feel guilty.

Okay, go ahead!

Get him out of his cage and bring him here.

So what should we conclude from all this?

That nothing separates us from the apes.

That the superiority of the human species over all others is a myth.

That all our theories about man and his relation to the universe

are based on a series of assumptions...

"To civilize" is the act of promoting the passage of a primitive society

to a more developed stage of its evolution.

The equivalent of 30,000 years of our history.

30,000 years of the history of human evolution.

I ask you to read Desmond... and Grevin...

(Grumble)

Hello!

(Grumble)

Is that okay?

You don't even know my name!

Er, tell me!

Fine.

Pleased to meet you.

Yes, apparently, in the last century it was a smugglers' lair.

Now it's a zoo.

If they had seen the animals run free they'd have had a heart attack.

Link, I think the lady does not understand very well.

Ladies and gentlemen, the animal right in front of your eyes

has just achieved an amazing performance.

You think that smoking is a performance?

No! Mastering fire!

All animals are afraid of fire!

Man is the only one to have mastered it and in doing so,

he inaugurated the start of civilization.

Then he realized he could work the iron and make tools

and more effective weapons.

It was the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, steam engines, the industrial revolution

and so on until today.

I thought you had read...

"Back to the Trees".

I said I have read it, not that I agreed.

All right. Then can I know your enlightened opinion?

Can I know what do you disagree with in the thesis I present in my book?

You know, it's been a while since I read it.

I guess. You were about five years old when the book was published.

Why haven't you written anything since then?

Answer my question first.

All right.

I think...

that people of my generation...

I mean that one of the reasons that pushed me to come here, to leave my country,

was that I wanted, before that some mad scientists blow up the planet, to live.

Because I don't have the impression that we really have mastered fire.

Do you think nuclear weapons are one more proof that we are mastering fire?

Yes, without a doubt.

And yet, we do not control them. It is they who govern us.

Man is not only narrow minded but also stupid and violent

and he's the one that will screw up the planet.

What's wrong with you all?

The youth thinks that man is a monster and the world an inferno.

Geez, the bomb was invented only 40 years ago!

As for this table, it was already two hundred years old

when your country signed the Declaration of Independence.

Then you come here and talk about the end of the world!

Besides, if you are sure that scientists will kill you,

do something to stop them!

The only problem is that we can't disinvent technology

and if the man can't have control over it, who can?

The chimpanzees?

Anyway, they can't do worse than us.

Nonsense!

You know absolutely nothing about chimpanzees

and apparently even less of your fellow human beings.

Well, if I want to work tomorrow I must go to bed.

Good night.

What did I say?

Cheers!

Sorry, I should have knocked...

Hmm, I came to make peace.

This is my book. I...

I signed it.

Thank you.

We haven't started off on the right foot.

My wife used to say that I was unbearable...

when I was drunk.

It doesn't matter.

My wife let me down.

Deep down I understand her.

A tall and hairy scientist with shares in a reserve...

fled with her in his Range Rover.

Land Rover... Range Rover?

I'm sorry.

Me too.

Well, it's getting late, I think I'd better go to sleep.

Good night.

She closed the door!

Frankly...

Ah! Those females of the dominant species!

All right. Good night old boy!

yellow, square, circle, triangle, square, circle, triangle

This young chimpanzee is the most trained to these tests in the world.

Any average four years old child

would do better in a few days.

And you, you come here, you know nothing of the procedure

and of course you defeat our hairy cousin hands down.

Maybe he did not want to play with abstract forms.

Fruit! I also have fruit!

Look!

Plastic fruit.

More plastic fruit.

I even tried with real ones. He had the right to eat one

when he gave the good answer.

The truth is simple. He can not.

Because the gap between man and ape is measured in millions of light-years

And all the beautiful and generous romantic ideas won't change anything about it.

Link, it's very dangerous, you are going to blow us all up!

You don't know how to use an oven!

Imp, come!

Imp, I must go down into town. I will look for a car.

No Imp, get up, come on. Now listen, listen to me!

I'll look for a car, I won't be long. Then we'll go down into town.

Listen! As soon as I exit you lock the door. Come on!

Get up and look over here. Come on!

Okay, you understood?

As soon as I exit you lock the door like this. All right?

And when I get back, but only when I tell you,

you open the door like that. Understood?

Go ahead, try.

You close and you open. Okay?

But only when I tell you.

Now, lock the door!

And you open it only when I tell you.

Imp, where are you?

Come on!

I hope it will start.

I must take you to the hospital.