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... survival , biologists and an- thropologists for long underplayed , or neglected , a mass of activities in which many other species were for long more knowledgeable than man . Despite the contrary evidence put forward by R. U. Sayce ...
... survival , biologists and an- thropologists for long underplayed , or neglected , a mass of activities in which many other species were for long more knowledgeable than man . Despite the contrary evidence put forward by R. U. Sayce ...
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... survival possible and even provided a margin for positive cultural develop- ment . So , too , the weapons , the masks and costumes and ornaments , the rituals and ceremonies , give hints that illuminate comparable images found in the ...
... survival possible and even provided a margin for positive cultural develop- ment . So , too , the weapons , the masks and costumes and ornaments , the rituals and ceremonies , give hints that illuminate comparable images found in the ...
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... survival . Here again the arbitrary Victorian principle of parsimony has misled us : that principle does not do justice to the extravagances and exuberances of nature . Dr. Walter Cannon demonstrated the rationale of organic sur- pluses ...
... survival . Here again the arbitrary Victorian principle of parsimony has misled us : that principle does not do justice to the extravagances and exuberances of nature . Dr. Walter Cannon demonstrated the rationale of organic sur- pluses ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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