Robert Ardrey - The Hunting Hypothesis (1976)

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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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Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits - of beauty and of adventure's embrace - are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?

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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

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If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.

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Man is man, and not a chimpanzee, because for millions upon millions of years we killed for a living.

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