Word: ethologist
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Such trivia are not redeemed by Morris' pious peroration, calling on "the human animal ... a simple tribal hunter by evolution," to indulge in a "magical return to intimacy." As any ethologist would warn Tribal Hunter Morris, man is the only animal to hunt without hunger, cropping his prey to extinction. ·Horace Judson
...naturally monogamous, evolution might not have favored intelligence and the dramatic expansion of the brain. "If every male had been allowed the opportunity to contribute equally to the gene pool," writes Fox, "then we might have been forever stuck as Homo stupidus." He and others, notably Washburn and British Ethologist Michael Chance, have devised theories for explaining how the banished, peripheral males might eventually win their spurs...