Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

CHAPTER 34: GENETIC SAFARI

1. Robert A. Hinde, ‘Konrad Lorenz (1903–89) and Niko Tinbergen (1907–88)’, in Fuller (editor), Seven Pioneers of Psychology, Op. cit., pages 76–77 and 81–82.

2. Niko Tinbergen, The Animal in its World, 2 volumes, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972, especially volume 1, pages 250ff

3. Mary Leakey, Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man, Op. cit.

4. Robert Ardrey, African Genesis, London: Collins, 1961, Fontana paperback, 1967.

5. Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, London: Harvill, 1993, page xiii.

6. Joy Adamson, Born Free, London: Collins Harvill, 1960.

7. House, Op. cit., page 227.

8. All published by Collins/Harvill in London.

9. The best of the other books by or about the Adamsons is: George Adamson, My Pride and Joy, London: Collins Harvill, 1986, especially Part II, ‘The Company of Lions.’ See also: House, Op. cit., pages 392–393

10. Jane Goodall, In the Shallow of Man, London: Collins, 1971, revised edition Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

11. Ibid., pages 101ff.

12. Ibid., page 242.

13. Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983, page xvi.

14. Ibid., pages 10–11.

15. Harold Hayes, The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey, London: Chatto & Windus, 1991, page 321.

16. George Schaller, The Serengeti Lion, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

17. Ibid., pages 24ff.

18. Ibid., page 378.

19. Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton, Among the Elephants, London: Collins & Harvill, 1978, page 38.

20. Ibid., pages 212ff.

21. Virginia Morrell, Ancestral Passions, Op cit., page 466.

22. Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey, The Beginnings of Humankind, London: Granada, 1981, pages 18ff. Morrell, Op. cit., page 466.

23. Morrell, Op. cit., pages 473–475. Tattersall, Op. cit., page 145.

24. Johanson and Edey, Op. cit., pages 255ff.

25. Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail, Op cit., page 151.

26. Morrell, Op. cit., pages 480 and 487ff.

27. Johanson and Edey, Op. cit., pages 294–304.

28. For a discussion of A. afarensis, see Donald Johanson and James Shreeve, Lucy’s Child, New York: Viking, 1990, pages 104–131. Tattersall, Op. cit., page 154.

29. Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie, The Book of Man: The Quest to Discover our Genetic Heritage, London: Little, Brown, 1994; paperback Abacus, 1995, page 77. Cook-Deegan, Op. cit., page 59.

30. Bodmer and McKie, Op. cit., pages 77–78.

31. Ibid. An alternative account is given in: Colin Tudge, The Engineer in the Garden, London: Jonathan Cape, 1993, pages 211–213.

32. Robert Cook-Deegan, The Gene Wars: Science, Politics and the Human Genome, New York and London: W. W Norton, 1994, paperback 1995, pages 59–61.

33. For a good explanation by analogy of this difficult subject, see: Bruce Wallace, The Search for the Gene, Op. cit., page 90.

34. Bodmer and McKie, Op. cit., pages 73–74. See the complete list for the first genome ever sequenced (by Sanger) in Cook-Deegan, Op cit., pages 62–63.

35. Bodmer and McKie, Op. cit., pages 86–87.

36. Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modem Biology, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971; Penguin paperback 1997. For Einstein and ‘mathematical entities’ see page 158; for the ‘primitive’ qualities of Judaeo-Christianity, see page 168; for the ‘knowledge ethic’ on which modern society is based, see page 177.

37. Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975; abridged edition 1980.

38. Ibid., page 218.

39. Ibid., pages 19 and 93.

40. Ibid., page 296.

41. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford and New York, 1976, new paperback edition, 1989.

42. Ibid., page 71.

43. Ibid., page 97.