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... trait that elevated him above the rest of brute creation . This overweighting of tools , weapons , physical ... trait , just as parrots and magpies share the distinctly human achievement of speech , and the bower bird that for colorful ...
... trait that elevated him above the rest of brute creation . This overweighting of tools , weapons , physical ... trait , just as parrots and magpies share the distinctly human achievement of speech , and the bower bird that for colorful ...
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... trait , central ✓ to all other traits , is this capacity for conscious , purposeful self - identifica- tion , self - transformation , and ultimately for self - understanding . Every manifestation of human culture , from ritual and ...
... trait , central ✓ to all other traits , is this capacity for conscious , purposeful self - identifica- tion , self - transformation , and ultimately for self - understanding . Every manifestation of human culture , from ritual and ...
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... trait later became dominant in higher human types . If one could sum up man's original constitution at the moment he ... traits in man's special mental equipment that have been strangely overlooked . 4 : BRAIN AND MIND The development of ...
... trait later became dominant in higher human types . If one could sum up man's original constitution at the moment he ... traits in man's special mental equipment that have been strangely overlooked . 4 : BRAIN AND MIND The development of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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