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...ROBERT ARDREY 242 pages. Atheneum...
...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...
...when the universe is seen as a determinist switchboard and man keeps getting a recorded announcement saying the nirvana he has dialed is not a working nirvana. But a little bit of evolution as theater goes a long way. The Hunting Hypothesis is essentially a restaging of one of Ardrey's basic themes: "Man is man, and not a chimpanzee, because for millions upon millions of evolving years we killed for a living." It is a perfectly plausible statement but one that is likely to annoy those who prefer their original sin with religion, and psychologists who hold that...
This statement attempts to tie Wilson's argument to that of Robert Ardrey, who is extensively and appropriately criticized in the two cited works. (Montagu is actually the editor, not the writer, of Man and Aggression.) In fact the only thing Wilson and Ardrey have in common is that both authors have commented on the evidence for human evolution published by biological and physical anthropologists, paleontologists and archeologists. Let's examine the critics' claims point by point...
Hugh Sidey must be a classical playwright or a modern anthropologist or both. Neither Shakespeare nor Robert Ardrey could have done a better job depicting the court of Gerald...