Ardrey, Robert

Robert Ardrey is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a playwright. After a visit to Africa he wrote African Genesis and a number of other books.

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Brooks too broad for leaping divide us from animal agony. The Territorial Imperative, 1966.

There are times when anthromorphisms are almost irresistible to even the most rigorous scientists. As unlikely victimes as Niko Tinbergen and David Lack have found the word "righteous" inescapable when describing the behavior of a territorial proprietor threatened by an intruder. The Social Contract, 1970.

. . . if we consider all the fossils we possess from most ancient times, then a remarkable proportion show evidence of violent death. Ibid.

As life is larger than man, so is life wiser than we are. As evolution has made us possible, so will evolution sit in final judgment. Ibid.