Starting in the late 50's and early 60's, Robert Ardrey (1908 - 1980) began exploding a series of philosophical landmines. AFRICAN GENESIS (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. Then came THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE (1966), whose title is now a common phrase in our language. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is the third in the series, and it denies that men are created equal. Robert Ardrey maintains that since the publication of Rousseau's "Contrat social" two centuries ago, mean have wasted social resources, converted much of education into a process of brain-washing, committed themselves to one political insane asylum after another, all in pursuit of a goal that is a natural impossibility in any sexually reproducing species. He even denies that his thesis is controversial, since he is merely presenting a body of scientific proof for what we should all know anyway. Discarding the myth, Robert Ardrey combines his wealth of knowledge of animal ways with the new insights of modern biology and the newest revelations concerning human evolution to probe perplexing contemporary problems: the revolt of the young, the status struggle and the role of leadership, population control, urban overcrowding, and violence in civilized life. This brilliant book offers a powerful challenge to accustomed thought. This trilogy of books were instrumental in changing scientific doctrine and increasing public awareness of evolutionary science. Ardrey's work was so popular that many prominent scientists cite it as inspiring them to enter their fields.

Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder

ARDREY, Robert

Readers Union / Collins

“For millions of years we have survived as hunters. In the few short millennia since our divorce from that necessity there has been no time for significant biological change - anatomical, physiological, or behavioral. Today we have small hope of comprehending ourselves and our world unless we understand that man still, in his inmost being, remains a hunter.”   From this premise, supported by the accumulated research and observations of two decades of anthropological investigation, Robert Ardrey guides the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery through twenty million years of man’s prehistory: from the days when his ancestors first emerged from the forests of Africa during the benevolent warmth and rains of the Miocene, through the unremitting drought of the Pliocene, and the dramatic climactic shifts of the Pleistocene, down to those few thousand years past when man emerged at last onto the stage of recorded history, a fully evolved hunting animal.   In this, Ardrey’s fourth book on the subject of man’s origins and nature, the author addresses himself with bold logic and insights to that basic question that haunts the cellars of our conscious mind: Why is man man?   Praise for the 1976 edition:   “Ardrey is back, and even his most scandalized critics will once again find it hard to resist reading him. By sheer wit, audacity, and timing he will entertain a large audience… [He is] the lyric poet of evolution, a superb writer…”  - E O Wilson   “This is easily the best of Robert Ardrey’s books. It is brilliant in its summary of recent findings, it is wonderfully persuasive in its argument about our essential human nature, and it makes a satisfying unity out of Ardrey’s thinking in all his books.”  - Max Lerner   “If I believe that Robert Ardrey’s books are the most important to be written since WWII and arguably in the 20th century, it is because he has satisfied to a quite unbelievable degree the demands of the ignorant layman and the requirements of the responsible scientist. The Hunting Hypothesis is not so much a sequel to the three previous books as the culmination of them. He draws on twenty years of wide reading and deep thinking, of predictable objection and surprising corroboration, to produce a unique and beautiful account of the making of man.”  - Antony Jay

The hunting hypothesis: A personal conclusion concerning the evolutionary nature of man

Collins

African genesis: A personal investigation into the animal origins and nature of man

Dell Pub. Co.]

Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

William Collins Sons Co Ltd

Social Contract

Science & Math

DOUBLEDAY

The storm of enthusiastic approval, on the one hand, and scathing denunciations, on the other, provoked by African Genesis, has been matched in intensity by the furor over The Territorial Imperative. An intensive study of man's evolutionary nature and its profound implications, The Territorial Imperitive "is an important and always challenging volume."

Territorial Imperative

Sports & Outdoors

A personal investigation into the animals origin and nature of man.

BANTAM BOOKS

Some shelf wear to DJ and boards. Tiny tears to DJ. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.

Hunting Hypothesis: A personal conclusion concerning the evolutionary nature of man

Bantam/Doubleday/Dell

A study of man's biological and behavioral heritage as traced to the predatory animals of the African continent, which developed characteristics formerly thought to be exclusively human

African Genesis; A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man

Evolution

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Intriguing examination of the animals' complex territorial concepts concluding that war, family loyalty, and other human principles are evolutionary instincts

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations

Biological Sciences

Atheneum

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Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder

The hunting hypothesis: A personal conclusion concerning the evolutionary nature of man

African genesis: A personal investigation into the animal origins and nature of man

Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

Social Contract

Territorial Imperative

African genesis: A personal investigation into the animal origins and nature of man

Hunting Hypothesis: A personal conclusion concerning the evolutionary nature of man

African Genesis; A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations