Word: arguments
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Leakey extends this argument to make his own claims about the nature of intelligence and language. He says we can no longer define man's uniqueness by either his ability to construct sentences or his ability to construct sentences or his ability to make tools. He cites the recently discovered ability in chimpanzees and gorillas to make and use primative tools as well as to create basic sentences. The progress chimpanzees and gorillas have made in the realm of language is particularly revolutionary and calls for a reevaluation of the fundamental differences between man and animal, Leakey writes...
Leakey saves his final chapter, entitled "An End to the Hunting Hypothesis," for a severe critique of those who see innately aggresive tendencies in man. Leakey focuses his argument to refute the likes of American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, Nobel prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, Raymond Dart--discoverer of the first Australopithecene. Robert Audrey--author of The Territorial Imperative and The Hunting Hypothesis, Desmond Morris--author of the Naked Ape and other who try to portray ancient man as the vicious truncheon-toting caveman caricatured in comic strips. Leakey contends that such aggressive people could never have survived--they would have killed...
Schlesinger's answer is simple. He attacks the foundation of these criticisms, he lays into the "false notion of historical objectivity." Rather than a final determination, history is an ongoing debate, he says, the logical extension being that his book is one more argument entered into the fray. But argument is not really the way to describe the book; eulogy is more like...
...committee--a job arranged by Kennedy's father--he was not, Schlesinger quickly points out, one who loudly accused and named traitors. Kennedy prepared a report calling for the cessation of all trade with mainland China, but says Schlesinger, "it was an able job, its facts well marshalled, its argument well organized, its tone cool." Schlesinger even manages to turn instances in which Bobby defended McCarthy around to Kennedy's advantage, saying the defense came from a "fondness" for McCarthy and an understanding of the old commie hunter's complexity...
...these seem to crystallize less and less often nowadays. When truckers dislike a nationally mandated speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained, frustrated and sometimes decisively defeated by willful factions of minuscule size...