PDF-(BOOS)-African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of

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 Ardreys 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 statusseeking 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 Ardreys times his insights on human behavior have a timeless quality and African Genesis remains a classic reference for anyone exploring lifes 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 Ardreys 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 mans 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. 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What did the LORD God make for Adam and his wife? A. coats of wool, and clothed them B. coats of skins, and clothed them C. coats of linen, and clothed them “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.”Robert Ardrey once again skates across decades of cutting-edge anthropological research, guiding the reader on a profound 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 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 animal.Published in 1976, Ardrey\'s 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?