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[Inside jacket cover text...]
Ever since Charles Darwin examined the origin of the human species, we have assumed that he was referring to our evolution from superior apes. Now, a century later, a European journalist named Branko Bokun asks why.
Employing a stunning sense of logic and assuming nothing, Bokun presents his case: man is descended from inferior apes and remains hopelessly immature, living in a useless intellectual prison of his own making. Because man learns everything by imitating other animals and adapting to his environment, he has lost his ability to inherit any natural pattern of behavior. And further, Mr. Bokun maintains that men and women have undergone two separate evolutionary processes - and modern woman is actually taking a step backward in her search for equality and liberation.
Women are now losing the one natural pattern of behavior which they had been able to retain - the instinct to preserve the species. Moreover, Bokun shows how mankind's self-infatuation prevents our species from progressing beyond the adolescent stage where we have become fixed. Soon we must all descend from our self-made pedestals and start living life rather than inventing it.
With its provocative theories on nakedness, frontal copulation, aggression, and unnatural selection, Branko Bokun's thesis will stimulate the many readers who have been absorbed in the writings of Robert Ardrey, Jacob Bronowski, and Desmond Morris.
Branko Bokun was born in Yugoslavia and studied at the University of Rome and the Sorbonne. He has worked in Italy as a journalist and now lives in London, where he is a correspondent for a number of Italian newspapers. He spends as much time as he can aboard his twenty-two-foot yacht in Antibes Harbor, France.
JACKET BY RICHARD MANTEL
ISBN 0-385-11629-2
Printed in the U.S.A.
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"Branko Bokun has provided us with a brand new view of the history of our species and its origins. This book gives us a new lens through which to review our past."
-A. De Riencourt, author of Sex and Power in History
"It is a joy to read - witty, wise and the most profound tribute to women since the women's liberation movement began."
-Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"Branko Bokun's exploration of man's survival as the 'fittest' to survive by being the weakest of the apes is luminously intelligent and perceptive and bears out the Goethe remark he quotes that the greatest joy 'of the man of thought is to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable.' "
-Anne Fremantle, author of Age of Faith and Woman's Way to God
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