Cinema Science: Primate Probabilities in the 'Planet of the Apes' Trilogy

Talking chimpanzees, moral conundrums and warnings about scientific experimentation abound in the newest iteration of the Planet of the Apes franchise. As Dave Crewe finds, the trilogy offers material on a range of topics for secondary Maths and Biology students, including exponential functions, cross-species disease transfer and the ethics of animal experimentation.

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