African Genesis Author:Robert Ardrey AFRICAN GENESIS — "...the most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man...that has been published for some time." -The Nation — AFRICAN GENESIS presents a fascinating array of new scientific evidence, largely accumulated over the last thirty years, on the origins of man. It is the author's unorthodox and intriguing theory that Homo s... more »apiens developed from carnivorous, predatory killer apes and that man's age-old affinity for war and weapons is the natural result of this inherited animal instinct. AFRICAN GENESIS will long continue to be read and remembered not only for the startlingly radical ideas which it champions, but also for the exceptional clarity of it's style and sense of mounting excitement which it vividly generates.« less