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... species , from the bees and the birds to the dolphins and the elephants , or the ancestral species from which both apes and hominids evolved . But the final break - through came with the appearance of the creature we now identify as man ...
... species , from the bees and the birds to the dolphins and the elephants , or the ancestral species from which both apes and hominids evolved . But the final break - through came with the appearance of the creature we now identify as man ...
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... species of plants , over twelve hundred thousand species of animals , helped to compose the environment that man found at his disposal , to say nothing of countless varieties of other organisms : some two million species altogether . As ...
... species of plants , over twelve hundred thousand species of animals , helped to compose the environment that man found at his disposal , to say nothing of countless varieties of other organisms : some two million species altogether . As ...
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... species - themselves singled out of hundreds of thou- sands of species - that he must have sampled . All man's food resources and most of the materials for clothing , shelter , and transportation were identified and utilized before the ...
... species - themselves singled out of hundreds of thou- sands of species - that he must have sampled . All man's food resources and most of the materials for clothing , shelter , and transportation were identified and utilized before the ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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