Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
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