User:Druidism/African Genesis

Ardrey's book which was published in the year of 1960. In this book, Ardrey gives us many examples from the animal kingdom to evidence that domination, not the sexual orientation, was the primary urge behind the whole human evolution. He argues that, according to mainstream Darwinian understanding, the main aim of the humanbeings in the evolutionary process was just to reproduce, was just to expand their genes as much as possible, but, Ardrey, argues that this is the derivative urge, and the main instinct before this is to have domination over the others. His emphasis on domination is consistent with his general argument of killer ape, and aggressiveness theory which was mainly introduced by Dart. Ardrey argues that the sexual selection bases upon the level of hiearchy of the animals in the animal society. He accepts that the selection was mainly achieved by females, but he says that this is artificial because females select their mate according to their hiearchy in the animal kingdom, and he says that they always select the hiearchically most elevated. He gives many examples from the bird societies. For example, in jackdaws, there is a very harsh struggle to determine the social hiearchy between them, and he says that the female selection comes after the determination of the hiearchy.The argument of the book is twofold that: the aggr