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The social contract; a personal inquiry into the evolutionary sources of order and disorder. / Drawings by Berdine Ardrey.
LIBRA QH368 .A683 1970
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LIBRA QH368 .A683 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ardrey, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Human behavior.
- Animal behavior.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Biological Evolution.
- Social Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Behavior, Animal.
- Biological Evolution.
- Social Behavior.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Graves, Ralph, 1924-2013 (inscription)
- Ardrey, Robert (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1970.
- Summary:
- This title "denies that men are created equal"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Tuckless in paradise
- The accident of the night
- Order and disorder
- The alpha fish
- Time and the young baboon
- Death by stress
- Space and the citizen
- The violent way
- The lions of Gorongosa
- The risen ape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-391).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "For Ralph Graves who has survived so many years, and awrgight (mispelled, awright) so what? Who loves him? Anybody? Well I suppose I do R. Ardrey" on half-title.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ardrey, Robert. Social contract.
- OCLC:
- 93379
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