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... hunters and collectors , the ge- ologists and botanists and zoologists , had begun to put together , for the first time , a picture of the earth as not merely the dwelling place of man , but as the seat of organic evolution and the home ...
... hunters and collectors , the ge- ologists and botanists and zoologists , had begun to put together , for the first time , a picture of the earth as not merely the dwelling place of man , but as the seat of organic evolution and the home ...
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... hunter's campfire . That ancient paleolithic hearth has become a backyard picnic grill , where , surrounded by plastic vegetation , factory - processed frank- furters are broiled on an open fire made with pressed charcoal eggs , brought ...
... hunter's campfire . That ancient paleolithic hearth has become a backyard picnic grill , where , surrounded by plastic vegetation , factory - processed frank- furters are broiled on an open fire made with pressed charcoal eggs , brought ...
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... hunter and beetle collector . With his lack of scholarly fixations and inhibitions , nothing prevented Darwin's awakening to every manifestation of the living environment : the geological formations , the coral reefs , the teeming seas ...
... hunter and beetle collector . With his lack of scholarly fixations and inhibitions , nothing prevented Darwin's awakening to every manifestation of the living environment : the geological formations , the coral reefs , the teeming seas ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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