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... increase of brain capacity that occurred something like a hundred thousand years ago . Doubtless they interacted : but tool - making as such calls forth little verbal facility , and most of the knowledge needed can be handed on without ...
... increase of brain capacity that occurred something like a hundred thousand years ago . Doubtless they interacted : but tool - making as such calls forth little verbal facility , and most of the knowledge needed can be handed on without ...
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... increase of knowledge but to the stability of family life ; and the better care of the young under such conditions would increase the prospect of transmitting learned behavior by imitation . Darwin was impressed by the exquisite mimicry ...
... increase of knowledge but to the stability of family life ; and the better care of the young under such conditions would increase the prospect of transmitting learned behavior by imitation . Darwin was impressed by the exquisite mimicry ...
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... increase of , 130 ; preparation of , 154 ; tropical , 132 Food - collecting , 101 Food - gatherers , neolithic , 131 Food - gathering , wards of , 106 99 ; re- Food plants , post - neolithic , 134 , 135 Food resources , improve- ment of ...
... increase of , 130 ; preparation of , 154 ; tropical , 132 Food - collecting , 101 Food - gatherers , neolithic , 131 Food - gathering , wards of , 106 99 ; re- Food plants , post - neolithic , 134 , 135 Food resources , improve- ment of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social society species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York