Planet Without Apes Summary

The movie that I choose to watch is “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. In class we learned that primates have different categories. The categories include; movement, reproduction, intelligence and behavior patterns. In the movie, the main ape, Caesar, as well as the other primates in the movie shows examples of these categories. Although, like most modern day movies, some behaviors and characteristics are not true and do not relate to the material that we studied in class.

Primate conservation has long been a topic of debate, reliant most heavily on the struggle to provide the necessary resources to combat the declining rate of population growth among various species. Orangutans in particular, both Sumatran and Bornean, have experienced a rapid drop in their free-living populations. With an estimate of only 27,000 left in the wild, questions have been raised over what selective pressures are impacting the steady decline of these animals existence. While hunting and poaching have been identified as contributing factors, habitat loss primarily takes center stage in their demise. Conservation efforts have been made and continue to be somewhat successful, however, challenges and set backs continue to threaten

Planet of the Apes takes the world as we know it and turns it upside down and in so doing questions almost every belief and value system of mankind. Written and produced at a time when America and much of the world was in the midst of a cultural change and people were questioning and protesting everything the screenwriters take make this film a satirical and thought provoking commentary on the big questions of the era. The Vietnam War, the struggle for equal treatment of African Americans and a general mindset of questioning religion and traditional values were the things that made up the American culture of the nineteen sixties. The film grapples with and makes ant attempt to address most of the issues of the period in which it was written. Three thousand years into the future man has devolved into a non-speaking primitive being while apes have evolved into intellectual beings capable of rational thought and speech. Taylor, the captain of the spaceship and tragic hero, speaks his last words before hibernating his way into the distant future, he states that he is leaving the twentieth century and asks a question, “Tell me, though, does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother ... keep his neighbor's children starving?” Taylor, a cynic and skeptic, sees man as violent and destructive. When he arrives in the future to a world where apes are supreme the antagonist of the film, Dr.

One of the main reasons why we are so interested in the other primates is that by looking at them we can obtain some ideas of what our ancestor must have been like a few millions years ago. Even though, we are not descended from any modern-type monkey or ape, our lineage does appear to have gone through stages in which we were a medium-sized, reasonably intelligent creature with good binocular vision, hands that were good at manipulation and the ability to climb trees. An evolutionary trend in primates involves the development of offspring both before and after birth and their integration into complex social systems. Another trend in primate evolution has been toward a more elaborate brain. In addition to brain size and gestation periods,

In the essay, “The Worthy Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Kelly Pietruszynski (the author) accesses the profitability and longevity of the movies leading up to and including “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” In the Essay, Pietruszynski hits on a few main points about the movie One being the spectacular plot, Pietruszynski explains how the plot is so spectacular. Pietruszynski says, “Any attempt to explain how apes become intelligent and humans stupid is finally going to stretch credibility…However is plausible.”(pg 132). Another being the special effects. The special effects are all computer generated like Caesar. Pietruszynski think this adds to the plot.

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle tells the story of Ulysse, a space explorer and journalist in the year 2500, who lands on a peculiar planet called Sorer. On this planet, humans are mindless creatures and great apes are intelligent beings, and Ulysse finds himself placed into a biological research facility, where he other “feral” humans are caged and investigated by great apes. In an attempt to convince the great apes of his journey and the notion that on planet Earth, it is the human race that evolved to be civilized, Ulysse embarks on a series of demonstrations to earn his freedom. When Ulysse is situated at the research facility, he carefully observes the three kinds of great apes that inhabit Sorer: the chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas. The novel portrays each species to have different characteristics and social behaviors; the chimpanzees being progressive and smart, the gorillas aggressive and ignorant, and the orangutans stubborn and conservative. This paper will thus explore how accurate these depictions are in reality. Additionally, during his attempts to establish his intelligence to the great apes of Sorer, Ulysse’s human companion Nova begins to learn the Simian language. Thus, the evolution of speech and how humans evolved to possess what’s necessary for speech will also be explored.

The Sixth Extinction focuses on the aspects of endangered and extinct species all around the world. Kolbert in this book is trying to get the audience to realize

All films, books and any other form of text have a hidden worldview whether intentional or not that can stem from the writers personal view. This meaning that when engaging with these texts it is important to understand your own personal beliefs and the underlying beliefs of the text and how they are being portrayed and how they align with your personal worldview whilst still appreciating a differing view. This paper will examine the worldview that is evident in Planet of the Apes (1968) and how we, using Dr. James Sire’s Seven Basic Worldview questions, can understand and appreciate the differences in diverse worldviews Planet of the Apes is an award winning film released in 1968. It was written by Michael Wilson and Rod Sterling and is a film adaptation of the original book by

Learning from early Modern Humans or Neanderthals can help shed light on our ancestors that walked the earth thousands of years ago offering a unique perspective or window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the unprecedented obscurity surrounding why humans survived while the Neanderthals went extinct.

The first topic addressed in this book that I will focus on is the social behavior of apes, specifically on courting rituals and mating behavior, such as the love dance performed by the “humans” in the novel. The second topic is the (in)capability of apes to produce human speech. In the novel, the apes all speak human language, but in reality, this is not a likely possibility.

Fossils can tell us a lot about the organisms that came before us. They are useful in dating when certain evolutionary aspects were achieved in our past as we developed. Fossils have allowed us to explore past civilizations and gives a major glimpse into the past. Fossils are a very important part in the advancements of biological evolution. Biological evolution is the way scientists work to understand the past, and to piece the puzzle of our ancestry together to understand how we have evolved over time. Fossils are a large part of this field because it allows us to see physical evidence of links between different species, and common ancestry between these species. By finding fossils of civilizations that were sequential, we can compare bone

Racial terror, a sentiment of fear, anger, and apprehension arising out of the perception by the racial or ethnic majority of their position atop the racial hierarchy being devalued or in danger of being lost, is a sentiment common in many majority peoples as they deal with the inevitable racial and ethnic admixture of their societies. This sentiment, however covertly expressed, can be found in both the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, based on the earlier French novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle, and the 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a mysterious planet–later found out to be a post-nuclear conflict Earth–in the distant year of 3978, their only means of transportation destroyed, and their knowledge of their

Knowing the common ancestor is very important in order to understand our genetic makeup because we share our genes and DNA with most life forms. Genes are making proteins which allow biological processes to happen if we share our genes with all organisms, thus we share biology as well. This can help understand why the human body works certain ways. Another important factor is that with evolution our bodies have become more complex, with a common ancestor we can figure out the bare bones of life. Today, humans are a mutation of DNA/genes of our concestor. Knowing our common ancestor we can figure out the mutations that have allowed "survival of the fittest" of certain ancestors that have take advantage of the environment in order to survive

When Planet of the Apes opened in theaters, few people knew what to expect. To most, the idea of a movie with the premise of a planet full of intelligent apes went against everything they had been taught. The initial attraction was the superb cast, spearheaded by Charlton Heston who portrays Taylor, an astronaut who crashes onto the planet. Heston was joined by many popular actors and actress such as, Roddy McDowell as Cornelius, Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius and Kim Hunter as Zira. Though the cast may have been the initial draw, the content is what has made the movie Planet of the Apes a classic that will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.

War for the Planet of the Apes is the third installment in the reboot series of the iconic franchise. The first entry in the trilogy, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was a surprisingly good film that managed to be more than just standard blockbuster fare, but it wasn’t until its sequel, 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, that the franchise upped the ante by introducing extremely thought-provoking themes and an emotionally heavy plot. War manages to build even more upon the tone and themes introduced in the previous entries and musters up a film truly worthy of the praise that it is sure to receive.