PDF-(BOOS)-The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature

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 hunterRobert Ardrey once again skates across decades of cuttingedge anthropological research guiding the reader on a profound journey of discovery through twenty million years of mans 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 climatic 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 animalPublished in 1976 Ardreys final work in the Nature of Man series is the capstone of a momentous achievement His work deeply influenced figures like Stanley Kubrick Sam Peckinpah Strother Martin and James Schlesinger and lodged itself permanently in the public imagination It will forever influence our answer to the fundamental question Why is man man. 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Where chance is part of the formula even the most stalwart anti-hunt individual would probably give a tiny degree of acceptance. . Amy, Rebecca, and Devin. Important Facts. Initial Velocity: 30 m/s. Initial Velocity in the X Direction: 10.26 m/s. Initial Velocity in the Y Direction: 28.19 m/s. Displacement of X: 59.03m. Time: 5.753 s. 6 . : Draw Conclusions. &. Step . 7: . Communication . Scientific Inquiry . Created by: Mrs. Gismonde . In the last PowerPoint we learned how to gather, collect and analyze our data. . Today you will learn how to bring your experiment to a close. . Ho - this hypothesis holds that if the data deviate from the norm in any way, that deviation is due strictly to chance.. Alternative hypothesis. Ha - the data show something important.. Doing decision = accept/reject Ho (the decision centers around null hypothesis). Test of hypothesis - Test whether a population parameter is less than, equal to, or greater than a specified value.. Remember an inference without a measure of reliability is little more than a guess.. Q. uestion. R. andom guess. Observation. Experiment. Your mom. A . hypothesis is:. A . tentative explanation . for an observation or a scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. . Q. uestion. R. andom guess. Observation. Experiment. Your mom. A . hypothesis is:. A . tentative explanation . for an observation or a scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. . In 1955 on a visit to South Africa, Robert Ardrey became aware of the growing evidence that man had evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory stock, who had also, long before man, achieved the use of weapons. A dramatist, Ardrey\'s interest in the African discoveries sprang less from purely scientific grounds than from the radical new light they cast on the eternal question: Why do we behave as we do? Are we naturally inclined towards war and weapons? From 1955 to 1961, Ardrey commuted between the museums and libraries and laboratories of the North, and the games reserves and fossil beds of Africa trying to answer that question. Eventually, his investigation expanded to include nationalism and patriotism, private property and social order, hierarchy and status-seeking, even conscience. All revealed roots in our most ancient animal beginnings and parallels in primate societies. African Genesis is at once the story of an unprecedented personal search and a story of man that had never before been told. It is a shocking book in that it challenges assumptions of human uniqueness that color every segment of modern thought and every aspect of our daily life. While evolutionary science has advanced markedly since Ardrey\'s times, his insights on human behavior have a timeless quality and African Genesis remains a classic reference for anyone exploring life\'s biggest questions. Praise for the 1961 edition: It is fate and fortune of some books to mark or make a turning point in science and culture. This I believe African Genesis will do. Dr Harlow Shapley, Harvard University The most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man that has been published for some time. The Nation What this sensational book presents is a new and radical interpretation of human behavior. Since Ardrey has written it with excitement, clarity and style, the book will undoubtedly be widely read and cause widespread controversy. But African Genesis also deserves the most serious attention on the part of scientists as well as laymen. Dr Kenneth Oakley, Leading British Anthropologist, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, British Museum Mr Ardrey\'s African Genesis is a fascinating drama played on a very broad and deep stage of space, time, biological evolution and ideas. The theme develops around man\'s striving to collect evidence and to understand the relational orders and timed sequences of living organisms. The search is for rational light on the true place of man himself in these biotic orders, and in the vast sweeps of the controlling environments. In this high drama the characters enter, leave relics and artifacts, act their roles as species, express their views and then exit. Among the characters are men of prehistory, nonhuman primates and the searching scientists themselves. The latter quarrel and dispute, cooperate and agree, strive for status and retreat from controversy. They are \'humans\' as portrayed skillfully by Ardrey. Nevertheless, they contribute to the slowly advancing understanding of man in his living world or to what Ardrey describes as a revolution of biological conceptions. C. R. Carpenter, Penn State University This quarrel about the innate nature of man began outside the gates of Eden, was continued by Darwin and Wallace and now looms menacingly across the threshold of the United Nations. Mr Ardrey has peered into our inner human darkness with wisdom gained from discoveries of natural history. Loren Eiseley, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science, University of Pennsylvania A territory is an area of space which an animal guards as its exclusive possession and which it will defend against all members of its kind. In this revolutionary book Robert Ardrey takes a concept familiar to every biologist, brings together for the first time a fair sampling of all scientific observations of this form of behavior, and demonstrates that man obeys the same laws as does many other animal species. With African Genesis Mr Ardrey stirred up enough storm to last an author, one would think, for a lifetime. In The Territorial Imperative, however, he explores more deeply and incisively man\'s evolutionary nature and threatens even more forcefully some of our most precious assumptions. In a time when we attribute to man either no instincts at all, or instincts too weak to be of significance, Mr Ardrey\'s conclusions concerning the instinctual force exerted on human life by territory will undoubtedly raise an even greater storm. The author concludes, for example, that a common cause for war lies in our ignorance of man\'s animal nature - in particular, in the aggressor\'s ignorance of the enormous animal energies which his intrusion will release in a seemingly weak territorial defender. In a quite different vein, he concludes that family loyalty and responsibility, in men no less than in gibbons or beavers or robins, rests on joint attachment to a private territory. Perhaps the author\'s most far-reaching, most controversial conclusion is that morality - our willingness to make personal sacrifice for interests larger than ourselves - has its origins in dim evolutionary beginnings, is as essential to the life of the animal as to the lives of men, and could probably not exist in the human species without property either privately or jointly defended and the ultimate command of the territorial imperative. Like its predecessor, The Territorial Imperative is a work of wit, of literary wealth, of high adventure. Again the author draws on his inexhaustible knowledge of animal ways, and again his wife presents her intriguing sketches of animal life. But this time Mr Ardrey takes his readers on far deeper excursions into the ancient animal world, and on far deeper penetrations of the contemporary human wilderness. While evolutionary science has advanced markedly since Ardrey\'s times, his insights on human behavior have a timeless quality and The Territorial Imperative remains a classic reference for anyone wishing to begin an adventure exploring life\'s biggest questions. Praise for the 1966 edition: One of the most exciting books about the nature of man that has ever been presented. - Newsday Robert Ardrey\'s vision of man\'s future is as hopeful as any doctrinaire utopian\'s, and, in my opinion, a good deal more interesting... He ranks as the lyric poet of human evolution, a superb writer with a special vision. - E. O. Wilson One of the most intellectually exciting books of humanized sciences we have ever recommended in the Club\'s long history, a fascinating inquiry into the nature of the human animal, and an invaluable, as well as beautifully written, treatise on recent extensions of the boundaries of the biological sciences. - Clifton Fadiman, Book-of-the-Month Club News This is a fascinating, stimulating, fruitful, thought-provoking, and irritating book. - Dr Abraham Maslow, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University Few books are as fresh in concept, lively in style, and potentially important in understanding human behavior. - Wall Street Journal I expected an interesting and fascinating book, but did not anticipate a splendid compendium of facts and principles beautifully and vigorously described. - C. R. Carpenter, Professor of Psychology and Anthropology, Penn State University Ardrey belongs to the long and distinguished tradition of first-rate scientific amateurs... the love of science, especially biological science, animates every page. - The New Yorker A territory is an area of space which an animal guards as its exclusive possession and which it will defend against all members of its kind. In this revolutionary book Robert Ardrey takes a concept familiar to every biologist, brings together for the first time a fair sampling of all scientific observations of this form of behavior, and demonstrates that man obeys the same laws as does many other animal species. With African Genesis Mr Ardrey stirred up enough storm to last an author, one would think, for a lifetime. In The Territorial Imperative, however, he explores more deeply and incisively man\'s evolutionary nature and threatens even more forcefully some of our most precious assumptions. In a time when we attribute to man either no instincts at all, or instincts too weak to be of significance, Mr Ardrey\'s conclusions concerning the instinctual force exerted on human life by territory will undoubtedly raise an even greater storm. The author concludes, for example, that a common cause for war lies in our ignorance of man\'s animal nature - in particular, in the aggressor\'s ignorance of the enormous animal energies which his intrusion will release in a seemingly weak territorial defender. In a quite different vein, he concludes that family loyalty and responsibility, in men no less than in gibbons or beavers or robins, rests on joint attachment to a private territory. Perhaps the author\'s most far-reaching, most controversial conclusion is that morality - our willingness to make personal sacrifice for interests larger than ourselves - has its origins in dim evolutionary beginnings, is as essential to the life of the animal as to the lives of men, and could probably not exist in the human species without property either privately or jointly defended and the ultimate command of the territorial imperative. Like its predecessor, The Territorial Imperative is a work of wit, of literary wealth, of high adventure. Again the author draws on his inexhaustible knowledge of animal ways, and again his wife presents her intriguing sketches of animal life. But this time Mr Ardrey takes his readers on far deeper excursions into the ancient animal world, and on far deeper penetrations of the contemporary human wilderness. While evolutionary science has advanced markedly since Ardrey\'s times, his insights on human behavior have a timeless quality and The Territorial Imperative remains a classic reference for anyone wishing to begin an adventure exploring life\'s biggest questions. Praise for the 1966 edition: One of the most exciting books about the nature of man that has ever been presented. - Newsday Robert Ardrey\'s vision of man\'s future is as hopeful as any doctrinaire utopian\'s, and, in my opinion, a good deal more interesting... He ranks as the lyric poet of human evolution, a superb writer with a special vision. - E. O. Wilson One of the most intellectually exciting books of humanized sciences we have ever recommended in the Club\'s long history, a fascinating inquiry into the nature of the human animal, and an invaluable, as well as beautifully written, treatise on recent extensions of the boundaries of the biological sciences. - Clifton Fadiman, Book-of-the-Month Club News This is a fascinating, stimulating, fruitful, thought-provoking, and irritating book. - Dr Abraham Maslow, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University Few books are as fresh in concept, lively in style, and potentially important in understanding human behavior. - Wall Street Journal I expected an interesting and fascinating book, but did not anticipate a splendid compendium of facts and principles beautifully and vigorously described. - C. R. Carpenter, Professor of Psychology and Anthropology, Penn State University Ardrey belongs to the long and distinguished tradition of first-rate scientific amateurs... the love of science, especially biological science, animates every page. - The New Yorker