Used Book – Les Animaux dénaturés, Vercors

In New Guinea, a team of scientists joined by journalist Douglas Templemore is searching for the famous "missing link" in the evolution from ape to man. Instead of a fossil, they find a thriving colony. A colony of quadrumanes, therefore apes. But have apes ever been seen as cave dwellers? Burying their dead? While the scientists question the nature of their "tropis," a businessman sees them as a potential source of cheap labor. The only way to counter Mr. Vancruysen's sinister plans is to prove the humanity of the tropis. Reasoning as zoologists rather than paleontologists only partially solves the problem but offers Doug Templemore a way to obtain the necessary proof. This leads him to risk his life for our greatest entertainment and edification, because beneath the laughter of this lighthearted satire lies the serious question of what we "human beings," unnatural animals, truly are.