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...turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Robert Ardrey's Shadow of Heroes. The theater is housed in the white brick and thermopane 800-seat Seattle Center Playhouse built for last year's World's Fair. And people can still whisk out there from downtown, if they like, by monorail...
There is much about evolution that is not understood. Ardrey takes the explosive growth of man's brain, occurring in the geologically instantaneous time of about a half-million years, for granted. Many anthropologists from Darwin to Eiseley have been unable to do so. This growth is unprecedented in recent evolutionary history. Why did it occur...
...since the man-apes: he has grown, his jaw has shrunk, his face become smaller and lower on his head. If man's body can change and his mind expand, there is no reason why the "instinctual bundle" man has inherited from his predatory ancestors must be preserved intact. Ardrey assumes that it will be, though he does not explain...
There are, of course, cases of beneficial instincts in animals which have become overdeveloped until they operate in harmful ways. Ardrey himself cites the case of the overgrown lion-pride, too large to sustain itself even though its hunting capability is immeasurably increased. He concludes it is an example of an overdeveloped dominance instinct...
...know what will happen to the man of the future; we are far from certain about what has happened to the man of the past. All we can say is that Robert Ardrey has presented a stale if intriguing view of man. He has given us some notion of how much man may still have in common with the monkey that so disappointed Mark Twain's Heavenly Father