As dignified as Leonardo da Vinci in an electric automobile, Darwin rode across the lava fields of Indefatigable Island in the Encantadas on the back of a Galapagos turtle. Under his Victorian umbrella he observed the outlandish rock crabs, spiders, and lizards about him, while thoughts of grandest contour about the distribution of God’s creatures bloomed in his mind. And nobody at all knew what he was about. Professor Raymond Dart brachiates along the steampipes in his lecture room at the University of Witwatersrand, drops behind his podium as neatly as a chimpanzee from a baobab, and the world has a fair notion of what he’s up to. Robert Ardrey has seen to that.
The Territorial Imperative, by Robert Ardrey. Atheneum, $6.95
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