Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid. - Bill Bryson

There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.

It is natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity — in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes — an interesting side branch.

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.