- Hardcover: 1 pages
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS; 1st Edition edition (Dec 31 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879759518
- ISBN-13: 978-0879759513
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 17.2 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Why do people behave in such unreasonable, ineffective ways? Why can't we get along? Renowned science writer L. Sprague de Camp explains that some of our counterproductive and self-destructive tendencies are the result of humans spending over a million years foraging through the African savannah for food, grubbing for edible roots, and chasing other scavengers away from the kills of abler predators. In these activities we see our highly competitive nature and our tendency to view others as adversaries. De Camp examines our global "wrong-headedness" by considering the qualities that served as survival traits in our primitive past. This book is social anthropology at its best!
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Not simplistic... deals with the inner reality of our nature,
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This review is from: Ape Man Within (Hardcover)
Like the Chimpanzees, we descend from apes. Like the chimpanzees, we inherit ape-like behavioral tendencies. This scares a lot of people, so they attack any idea that suggests that we are anything other than a docile species, easily brainwashed into gentleness and conformity. The entire weight of human history says otherwise, and supports the conclusions of this book. A good book, but the insecure reader should avoid it.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Simplistic view of our past,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ape Man Within (Hardcover)
The Ape-Man Within offers a simplistic view of our pre-historic past. Nothing is explained just presupposed. Readers should do better to take a look at writers like Alexander, R.D. Leakey, R. or Stephen Gould to understand something of our human nature and the way we evolved. Michael Olson.
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Not simplistic... deals with the inner reality of our nature,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ape Man Within (Hardcover)
Like the Chimpanzees, we descend from apes. Like the chimpanzees, we inherit ape-like behavioral tendencies. This scares a lot of people, so they attack any idea that suggests that we are anything other than a docile species, easily brainwashed into gentleness and conformity. The entire weight of human history says otherwise, and supports the conclusions of this book. A good book, but the insecure reader should avoid it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Simplistic view of our past,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ape Man Within (Hardcover)
The Ape-Man Within offers a simplistic view of our pre-historic past. Nothing is explained just presupposed. Readers should do better to take a look at writers like Alexander, R.D. Leakey, R. or Stephen Gould to understand something of our human nature and the way we evolved. Michael Olson.
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