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...Primate Research Center in Atlanta suggested that the chief value of his second book was to amend the errors of the first. After reading the same text, Edmund Leach, the British anthropologist, announced that it was "best left alone altogether." Despite such forthright professional judgments of his writings, Robert Ardrey, 61, the author of two anthropological bestsellers, African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), has now produced another work in the same field, which is certain to draw even more caustic criticism from the discipline he has chosen to invade...
...Social Contract (Atheneum; $10), Ardrey, with characteristic boldness, traces the evolutionary development of that effective and mysterious survival mechanism, the group. He has obviously done his homework; his bibliography runs to 322 entries. But his interpretation of this background soars well beyond most anthropological theory, to hypotheses and conjectures that are largely...
...African Genesis, Robert Ardrey...
...always provide easy or gracious living; lesser communities are almost always more comfortable. Juvenal could have walked peacefully in any number of attractive provincial cities. The average resident of one of Britain's planned new towns lives better than his counterpart in London. Yet London, notes Robert Ardrey, author of The Territorial Imperative, was a great city "even when the food was terrible, and you couldn't get a hot bath." Stockholm, Geneva and Johannesburg, by contrast, are three of the most comfortable cities in the world, but not one of them has even a shadowy claim...
...ROBERT ARDREY Rome...