title: Homo Sapiens: A Species Gone Ape
author: Mark Gerszewski
description: A native of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Mark Gerszewski is a licensed building contractor and architectural designer, as well as, a corporate crisis intervention and behavior management instructor. He is a volunteer and advocate for people with disabilities, a martial arts black belt instructor, and now at fifty-one years old, a young aspiring author. For the past twelve years Gerszewski has pursued his passion for writing, delving into a variety of genres including poetry, short stories, and nonfiction. Gerszewskis diverse background has given him a unique perspective to write his first published book, Homo Sapiens: A Species Gone Ape; a discerning, personal, and often painful insight into the mores of todays society. Written with brazen humor, utmost honesty, and dark intellectual satire, Homo Sapiens explores how we, as a society, got here and where we are going socially, culturally, and economically. Mr. Gerszewski currently resides in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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  ## Chapter Twenty
  
  "We have conducted surveillance of Earth since the beginning of human
  civilization," Calazar declared. "For most of that time the operation has been
  entrusted to a race within our society known as the Jevlenese, which until now
  we have not brought to your attention. As you appear to have deduced for
  yourselves already, the Jevlenese are fully human in form."
  
  " _Homo sapiens_ are somewhat . . . volatile," Frenua Showm added, as if
  feeling that some additional explanation was called for. "Humans possess an
  intense instinct for rivalry. We felt that the issue was potentially
  sensitive. It could always be revealed tomorrow, but never unsaid again once
  said today."
  
  "You see," Danchekker pronounced, looking toward Hunt with some evident
  satisfaction from where he was standing on the far side of Karen Heller. "As I
  maintainedan independent hominid line descended from ancestral primate