Meet the entire family:
Orangutan, gorilla, human, bonobo, chimpanzee.
True, that list includes you.
So get down from your throne,
the facts have been known for more than a century.
What a deluded bunch are we
ignorant of our own pedigree.
What a twisted identity
based on a warped genealogy.
Is universal kinship all that bad?
Hand in hand, line up all the generations.
But 300 miles to the great divergence
between us and our common ancestor.
So when in this short continuum did you become special?
What a piteous world is this
when truth is shunned by the populace?
Who will come to science's defense
when bunk is heralded as common sense?
Take your place in the great narrative.
You're the fifth ape.
But the fifth ape.
Orangutan, gorilla, human, bonobo, chimpanzee.
True, that list includes you.
So get down from your throne,
the facts have been known for more than a century.
What a deluded bunch are we
ignorant of our own pedigree.
What a twisted identity
based on a warped genealogy.
Is universal kinship all that bad?
Hand in hand, line up all the generations.
But 300 miles to the great divergence
between us and our common ancestor.
So when in this short continuum did you become special?
What a piteous world is this
when truth is shunned by the populace?
Who will come to science's defense
when bunk is heralded as common sense?
Take your place in the great narrative.
You're the fifth ape.
But the fifth ape.