Editing Planet of the Apes (section)

==The Book==
Written in 1963 by French author Pierre Boulle, "La Planète des singes" revolves a couple casually flying their spaceship on their honeymoon when they discover a long-lost recording. Reading it, they discover the tale of a man who undertook a trip through space to the distant planet of Soror, where he discovered a world populated by humans with the intellects of animals and a society of civilized apes. Captured as a lab specimen, he narrowly avoids death by revealing his ability to talk, reason and debate, proving himself the intellectual equal of the apes around him. Cautiously welcomed into their society, he discovers that Soror was once home to an advanced civilization of humans, but they fell into decadence, unwittingly handing over the reigns of power to the apes they had uplifted as a servitor species and finally devolving into the beasts-in-human-shape that exist today. Spooked by this revelation, the author reclaims his spaceship and flies back to Earth, only to discover that, thanks to time dilation, the same thing has happened on Earth; humanity has degenerated to beasthood and the apes have inherited the Earth. The story ends with the framework couple, revealed to be apes themselves, scoffing at the idea of an intelligent human.