thinker

Robert Ardrey

A playwright turned evolutionary anthropologist who argued that human territorial, hierarchical, and aggressive behavior has deep biological roots - demolishing the blank-slate assumptions that underpin liberal social engineering, decades before it became acceptable to say so.

ecology

One of the first pioneers of the ideas of sociobiology in journalism, Robert Ardrey wrote a series of four books focusing on the evolutionary history of man and other species. Using evolutionary biology as his criterion he demolished almost all the socialist and communist myths about man and human society, establishing that the biological order inside us is far more powerful than any social engineering which modern ideologies want to impose upon human societies.

Select Works

African Genesis (1961) – Argument for African origins of humans and innate aggression.
The Territorial Imperative (1966) – Exploration of property, nationhood, and instinctual boundaries.
The Social Contract (1970) – Evolutionary analysis of order, hierarchy, and cooperation.
The Hunting Hypothesis (1976) – Final volume on hunting as driver of human evolution.