Hooton Tells Why Men Behave Like Apes And Vice- Versa in New Book

"Hooton of Harvard" has done it again! Still fond of shocking his everloyal public, the famed anthropoligist has just released a new bombshell in his latest book, "Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice-Versa.

Going a step farther than fundamentals which still repudiate the doctrine that men and apes come from common primate stock. Hooton thinks the shoe ought to be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, "would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man."

Harvard undergraduates might blush to discover that Professor Hooton had to leave Harvard to get the inspiration for his latest work. It grew out of lectures on the organic basis of behavior which he delivered at Princeton last Spring. Pleased by his Princeton audience, he declared in his preface:

"It did not dwindle perceptibly from lecture to lecturer; it did not cough, shuffle or figet, and it included no old ladies who arose and walked out noisily and indignantly."

Why Not Feeble-morality?

Hooton trades intellectual punches with social scientists, especially with extreme behavorists among them, who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. He contends that since feeble-mindedness can be inherited, so too can feeble-morality. One of his favorite phrases is "moral imbecility."

Hooton declares that inherited temperamental differences in animals are admitted by most scientists, but that when they stop over the threshold to humanity, these tender-minded, idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out of the window.