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Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966). After a Broadway and Hollywood career, he returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s.
The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man (commonly known as The Hunting Hypothesis) is a 1976 work of paleoanthropology by Robert Ardrey. It is the final book in his widely read Nature of Man Series, which also includes African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966).
- Robert Ardrey
- 1976
The Nature of Man Series is a four-volume series of works in paleoanthropology by the prolific playwright, screenwriter, and science writer Robert Ardrey. The books in the series were published between 1961 and 1976.
He wrote the film, which was produced by veteran documentary maker David Wolper and features actors in makeup portraying the ages of man. "We have great scenes," he said, "like Peking Man trying to catch fire during a thunderstorm.
A documentary film on the evolution of man, a visualization of the drama contained in Robert Ardrey's best-selling trilogy of books on animal and human behavior. The film recreates man's distant ancestors. such as Australopithecus and Cro-Magnon, to explain aggression, dominance and survival.
Born in 1908, Robert Ardrey was an American playwright and author who grew up on the South Side of Chicago. He attended the nearby University of Chicago, graduating in 1930. It was the very beginning of the Great Depression, which he writes in his autobiography “was the making of me…
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Apr 10, 2012 · African Genesis by Robert Ardrey is an early book on human genesis. It claims the genesis for Mankind is in Africa and not in Asia. The author contends that humans have a violent streak which extends to this day. Robert Ardrey uses much material from Raymond Dart.
