The Trench, similar to the Grindylows of British folklore, Cthulhu Mythos' Deep One, Universal Classic Monsters' Gill-man, and Fallout's Mirelurk. They were regressed to survive in the deepest, darkest places on the bottom of ocean trenches where they hide — hence their name — and are photophobic when in contact with light. LEGO's 2009 Bionicle sets include Glatorian and Agori. One of the six tribes includes The Sand Tribe, which the Glatorian and Agori of that tribe are turned into scorpion-like beasts — the Vorox and the Zesk — by their creators, The Great Beings; whom are also of the same species as Glatorian and Agori. Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel Planet of the Apes depicts humans as primitive animal-like beings which the apes take over as a dominant species and forming their own societies; orangutans are the politicians, gorillas are the security and police, and chimpanzees are the scientists, scholars, inventors and explorers. Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 novel Galápagos is set a million years in the future, where humans have "devolved" to have much smaller brains. Robert E. Howard, in The Hyborian Age, an essay on his Conan the Barbarian universe, stated that the Atlanteans devolved into "ape-men", and had once been the Picts (distinct from the actual people; his are closely modeled on Algonquian Native Americans). H.P. Lovecraft's 1924 short story The Rats in the Walls also describes devolved humans. Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels contains a story about Yahoos, a kind of human-like creature turned into a savage, animal-like the state of society in which the Houyhnhnms — descendants of horses — are the dominant species. Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy, believed, contrary to standard evolutionary theory, that apes had devolved from humans rather than the opposite, through affected people "putting themselves on the animal level". References Creationism Evolutionary biology