The Imperial Animal
by Lionel Tiger, Robin Fox
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The Imperial Animal offers a compelling perspective on the controversy over humans and their biology. This now-classic study is about the social bonds that hold us together and the antisocial theories that drive us apart. The authors divulge how the evolutionary past of the species, reflected in genetic codes, determines our present and coerces our future. This book gives us a direct and intimate look at how we see ourselves. It offers insight into our politics, our ways of learning and show more teaching, reproducing and producing, playing and fighting. The authors assert that the purpose of this book is twofold: to describe what is known about the evolution of human behavior, and then to try to show how the consequences of this evolution affect our behavior today. To do this they draw from numerous disciplines--zoology, biology, history, and primatology, among others. In the new introduction, Tiger and Fox outline then- reasons for originally writing the book as well as the process they used to do their research. The Imperial Animal is a classic work that will continue to be of interest to sociologists, zoologists, biologists, and primatologists. show lessTags
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Robin Fox is University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University
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- Original title
- The Imperial Animal
- Original publication date
- 1971
- First words
- WE KNOW OURSELVES surprisingly well. The isolation of the individual is neither final nor merciless. We are none of us truly isolated; we are connected to one another by a web of regularities and by a host of
shared, dee... (show all)p-seated certainties. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A stubborn million-year-old animal pushes its big-brained head above the litter of pieces and
contrivances and stares with some new confusion at the other big brains across the way, in the other dump. Once before they joined to make a little empire. Again that stamina for encounter and that tenderness
about the movements in the tribe are necessary, if only that swollen brain can contrive a method to harmonize all the massive schemes and affirm the absolute value of intimacies no more extensive than the reach of an unarmed arm. - Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.2 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes
- LCC
- GN365.9 .T52 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Culture and cultural processes
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 4
