Yeah, assuming the kid had seen neither gorillas nor black people in the flesh before, and she was of largeish build and especially dark complexion, it's quite a reasonable assumption for a child to make. What with the facial bone structure of African people being different to caucasians, and indeed everyone else, in precisely the same way as that of certain simians. Purely because of a leftover physical trait that for no particular reason hasn't changed. Which is weird, because there's no evolutionary advantage either way. Fascinating stuff, anthropology.

Still, pretty damned unfortunate.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 15:18, Reply)