Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams
Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams

Challenge to Survival by Leonard Williams

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Challenge to Survival

A Philosophy of Evolution

by Leonard Williams

Andre Deutsch, 1971, [First Edition], b/w plates, hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0233962964

Near Fine Condition, minor shelf and edge wear to dustjacket

'In this new book Leonard Williams establishes himself as a leading figure in the field of evolutionary and primate studies.  With a commanding presentation of fact and historical synthesis he introduces us to an entirely new conception of the origin and function of man's nature in pre-history.  In an apocalyptic chapter - 'The Birth of Sin' - he shows us how he actually enters the mid of the ape and of prehistoric man.
Williams opposes the popular theory that man has a built-in schizophrenia that is rooted in an 'evolutionary mistake in brain-building'.  He claims that the divided mind is not a 'split-mind', but a mind that must oppose itself in order to establish its own unity and health.  An undivided mind is therefore not a mind but a vegetable.  historical and behavioral evidence is produced to show that instinct and reason, though distinct, are fundamentally continuous, and that instead of making a god of reason we must use it to strengthen an instinctual morality that we have inherited from our primitive ancestors.'