The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.