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... sufficient by their finder , Dr. L. S. B. Leakey , to identify the creature as in the direct line of human ascent , despite marked physical divergences from both apes and later men . Since Leakey's sub - hominids had a brain capacity ...
... sufficient by their finder , Dr. L. S. B. Leakey , to identify the creature as in the direct line of human ascent , despite marked physical divergences from both apes and later men . Since Leakey's sub - hominids had a brain capacity ...
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... sufficient skill in the hunt , not merely protected himself with the fur of better- equipped animals , but even pieced them into more or less fitting , Eskimo- like clothes . In the terminal period of glaciation , beginning roughly a ...
... sufficient skill in the hunt , not merely protected himself with the fur of better- equipped animals , but even pieced them into more or less fitting , Eskimo- like clothes . In the terminal period of glaciation , beginning roughly a ...
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... sufficient to ward off spurious , often perverse , suggestions of the un- conscious , fostered originally by some accidental success . Perhaps the most mysterious of all human institutions , one that has been often described but never ...
... sufficient to ward off spurious , often perverse , suggestions of the un- conscious , fostered originally by some accidental success . Perhaps the most mysterious of all human institutions , one that has been often described but never ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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