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... hand , was what made a profound difference ; and that brain could not possibly have been just a hand - made product , since it was already well developed in four - footed creatures like rats , which have no free - fingered hands . More ...
... hand , was what made a profound difference ; and that brain could not possibly have been just a hand - made product , since it was already well developed in four - footed creatures like rats , which have no free - fingered hands . More ...
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... hands made upon the walls of caves as far apart as Africa and Australia . These imprints are all the more puzzling ... hand may , even more sharply than a cairn of stones , count as the earliest public memorial to the dead . But it is ...
... hands made upon the walls of caves as far apart as Africa and Australia . These imprints are all the more puzzling ... hand may , even more sharply than a cairn of stones , count as the earliest public memorial to the dead . But it is ...
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... Hand , symbolism of , [ 9 ] ; varied functions of , 7 Hand - axe , 24 , 100 Handicraft , [ 22-23 ] ; justi- fication of , 238 ; West- ern , 256 Hands , imprints of , 21 ; pa- leolithic , 65 ; as tools , 100 Harappa , 165 Hard conditions ...
... Hand , symbolism of , [ 9 ] ; varied functions of , 7 Hand - axe , 24 , 100 Handicraft , [ 22-23 ] ; justi- fication of , 238 ; West- ern , 256 Hands , imprints of , 21 ; pa- leolithic , 65 ; as tools , 100 Harappa , 165 Hard conditions ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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