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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unjust Laws Exist--Thoreau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Signs of the Times: DC Demonstration | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...from his troop, the individual baboon will not last very long. It is easy to see why: physiologically, he is poorly equipped for solitary life in the African veldt. Compared to his greatest predator, the leopard, the baboon not very big, or very strong, or very fast. To exist, he has developed society--as an instrument of defense...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Ardrey Would Give Social Darwinism A Basis In Fact | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

Such a view is drastically simplified. It overlooks the fact that in animal societies, dominance, territory and status are generally interrelated, and there is no reason to assume human societies are less complex. These compulsions do not exist in a vacuum; a frustrated man cannot shunt his energy from one drive to the next until he finds an outlet...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Ardrey Would Give Social Darwinism A Basis In Fact | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...higher primates, is unspecialized. He is physiologically equipped with no defenses; even the sharp canine teeth of his ape ancestors, Proconsul, are gone. His brain is only slightly larger than that of an ape. The most natural question to ask is, how could such a generalized defenseless creature exist...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Ardrey Would Give Social Darwinism A Basis In Fact | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...future, "The basic question before us is whether we can move fast enough to build such a (world) community, before we 'cease to exist'. . . . To say that this is utopian or idealistic after the abysmal tragedies of the two world wars, and after a thermonuclear arms race is well along is to invite the oblivion which now hovers over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold War Blame | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

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