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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

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Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey
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Born: October 16, 1908
Died: January 14, 1980 (aged 71)
Bio: Robert Ardrey was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter and science writer. After a long Broadway and Hollywood career he returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s.
Known for:
  1. The Territorial Imperative (1966)
  2. The Social Contract (1970)
  3. The Hunting Hypothesis (1976)
  4. Plays of Three Decades (1968)
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  • human
  • classic
  • dissatisfaction
  • apes
  • animal
  • obvious
  • risen
  • stars
  • dreams

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