https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/files/original/8dbb4af433f3e884fad2bda124039cd4.jpg 88171e2247720ae60463e394827a1a17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books Description An account of the resource Books owned or studied by Bruce Lee Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Bishop Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Doug Klinger, Marcos Ocana Book Author Eugene Marais Publication Year 1969 Publisher Human & Rousseau Language English Subject Matter Zoology Description <span>Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner who in the course of his lifetime was a journalist, lawyer, poet, and amateur naturalist. <em>The Soul of the Ape</em>, written in the early '20's and only recently unearthed, represents Marais' interpretations of higher primate behavior based on three years of living in close proximity to a tribe of wild chacma baboons in the years following the Boer War. Robert Ardrey, in a long, fulsome introduction, declares this to be a masterpiece, not perhaps as scientifically sophisticated as it should be, but full of insights ethologists are teaching today. The work is not a masterpiece. It is weak in science, full of naive experiments with hypnosis which bear out shaky hypotheses about the degeneration of the senses and the like. But it is a fascinating study of the personality of a man who clearly did do some remarkable things, did believe in man's ""animal nature"" and saw many grounds for comparison between baboon and human behavior. His own nature was infected with gloom and sadness, and so not surprisingly, he saw such emotional shadowings in the primates. Baboons and man both get depressed, need drugs, exhibit sexual behavior at variance with other mammals. Marais considered some of these patterns of behavior and others as related to the evolution of adaptive behavior, or ""causal memory,"" which he thought was in deepest conflict with instinctive hereditary behavior geared toward ""narrow"" selection. Marais was a morphine addict who committed suicide in 1936. <em>– Kirkus Reviews</em></span> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Soul of the Ape