ABSTRACT
A foreign language is an unintelligible stream of noise to a nonspeaker, who armed with a grammar, can begin to make sense of it, to isolate elements, and eventually to put them together and communicate. In order to understand the language of behavior, we need a comparable set of rules for the biogram, the biogrammar, a relatively small word on which hang all the major questions of social science. To a large section of the social-science establishment such a comparison would be anathema, however obvious it may be to the intelligent animal lover. Man's body is unique; so is his behavior. And in both his body and his behavior the uniqueness represents very special biological adaptations built in by the exacting process of natural selection. Just as a child can learn only a language that follows the 'normal' rules of grammar for human languages, he can learn only a grammar of behavior that follows the parallel rules of the biogrammar.
