Those interested in the evolutionarily acquired behavioral predispositions should read Robert Ardrey’s African Genesis.
More hard data, in less space, and more easily read than any book on this subject since the publication of African Genesis in the mid 1960’s.
There is a reason that MITS & WITS bought foot noted non fiction in such numbers that this book was on the NYT best seller list for many months.
Oops - MITS = Man In The Street
WITS = Woman In The Street
"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see." (Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, p 23-24)
Gonna have to check this one out. Thanks GG.