[ReignOfError]

Queen Victoria, on seeing an orangutan named Jenny at the London Zoo in 1842, declared the beast "frightful and painfully and disagreeably human."

As much as I love Queen Vicki, she had it backward -- what's frightful and painful and disagreeable isn't how human they are; it's how simian we are.

[PatrickHenry]

I think this is the cover of the current issue of Time in which this article appears:

Time Cover (09 Oct 2006) "How We Became Human"

[Wormwood]

As much as I love Queen Vicki, she had it backward -- what's frightful and painful and disagreeable isn't how human they are; it's how simian we are.

Quoted for Truth.