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... least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive peoples , like the Australian Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless ...
... least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive peoples , like the Australian Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless ...
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... least , the institutional complex of the archaic village . The initial stages of domestication , though slow if one judges them by the pace of the last three centuries of mechanization , were full of adven- turous adaptations and useful ...
... least , the institutional complex of the archaic village . The initial stages of domestication , though slow if one judges them by the pace of the last three centuries of mechanization , were full of adven- turous adaptations and useful ...
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... least , paper . Note that only a few of these inventions can be called machines . Many of them , as one would expect from their agricultural or domestic setting , are utensils or utilities : derivatives from the primarily neolithic art ...
... least , paper . Note that only a few of these inventions can be called machines . Many of them , as one would expect from their agricultural or domestic setting , are utensils or utilities : derivatives from the primarily neolithic art ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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