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... animal . What is more , he stands indisputably at the climax of the vertebrate line , with its increasing specialization of the nervous system , which began with the development of the olfactory bulb and the brain stem and added ...
... animal . What is more , he stands indisputably at the climax of the vertebrate line , with its increasing specialization of the nervous system , which began with the development of the olfactory bulb and the brain stem and added ...
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... animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he equipped to take in more of the concrete world of arresting patterns and identifiable objects , mineral , vegetable , animal , and human ...
... animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he equipped to take in more of the concrete world of arresting patterns and identifiable objects , mineral , vegetable , animal , and human ...
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... animal , the original domesticators must have had a strong motive for overcoming the difficulties of the task . That this motive was economic is un- likely , since it would not have been possible to foresee the uses to which the animal ...
... animal , the original domesticators must have had a strong motive for overcoming the difficulties of the task . That this motive was economic is un- likely , since it would not have been possible to foresee the uses to which the animal ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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