AFRICAN GENESIS - R. ARDREY- Animal origins Nature of men illus maps Berdine Ardine

 Robert Ardrey became aware of the growing evidence that man had evolved on the African continent from carnivorous predatory stock  etc.  He worked for 6 years in museums, libraries and laboratories game reserves and fossil beds of Africa.!!!!

Illustrations by Berdine Ardrene 1961 COLLINS LONDON edition. "To the Memory of Eugene Marais -" Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highveld reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about - slowly, ever so slowly - on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace"

The social anthropologist Robert Ardrey says as a scientist Marais was unique, supreme in his time, yet a worker in a science unborn.  A Personal Investigation Into The Animal Origins And Nature Of Man. In his 1961 African Genesis and his 1966 The Territorial Imperative, Ardrey, the populist wing of the Lorenz camp, contended that homo sapiens had built a society predicated on territoriality.  http://www.encounter.co.za/article/140.htm   

Collins 1961 Red cb. 380pp. illus foldout charts, dwgs. indexed   Hard back good clean well-binded condition with dust cover (dustcover tears paperloss see photo) by Aleksander Werner with foldout map. Name of previous owner on first page.