For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.