Robert Ardrey’s African Genesis is a frankly personal record of the impact of “the new enlightenment” in zoology upon the author, who dropped his work at hand and went to Africa to talk with the obscure, outlaw theorists who for the past thirty years have been preparing a revolution in the natural sciences. Behind this surprising book stands the engaging spirit of Eugène Marais, to whose memory the book is dedicated. The hopeless neglect and sabotage which have obfuscated Marais proved contagious; hence the bandit flavor of Mr. Ardrey’s investigation.
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man, by Robert Ardrey. Atheneum, $6.95
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