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... continued among intermediate human types until Homo sapiens emerged some fifty or a hundred thousand years ago , when the brain as a whole reached something like its present size and conforma- tion . Unfortunately , the size and weight ...
... continued among intermediate human types until Homo sapiens emerged some fifty or a hundred thousand years ago , when the brain as a whole reached something like its present size and conforma- tion . Unfortunately , the size and weight ...
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... continued useful at a lower level as a universal social cement . Language , one must suppose , was put together out of many disparate experiments and efforts , in the face of many collapses into incoherence and misunderstanding : so the ...
... continued useful at a lower level as a universal social cement . Language , one must suppose , was put together out of many disparate experiments and efforts , in the face of many collapses into incoherence and misunderstanding : so the ...
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... continued to range abroad in search of game or fish . Daryll Forde points out that among surviving peoples living under much the same conditions " patches on which wild yams grew abundantly were protected , partially cleared , and ...
... continued to range abroad in search of game or fish . Daryll Forde points out that among surviving peoples living under much the same conditions " patches on which wild yams grew abundantly were protected , partially cleared , and ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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