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... increase of brain capacity that occurred something like a hundred thousand years ago . Doubtless they interacted : but tool - making as such calls forth little verbal facility , and most of the knowledge needed can be handed on without ...
... increase of brain capacity that occurred something like a hundred thousand years ago . Doubtless they interacted : but tool - making as such calls forth little verbal facility , and most of the knowledge needed can be handed on without ...
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... increase of knowledge but to the stability of family life ; and the better care of the young under such conditions would increase the prospect of transmitting learned behavior by imitation . Darwin was impressed by the exquisite mimicry ...
... increase of knowledge but to the stability of family life ; and the better care of the young under such conditions would increase the prospect of transmitting learned behavior by imitation . Darwin was impressed by the exquisite mimicry ...
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... increase of , 130 ; preparation of , 154 ; tropical , 132 Food - collecting , 101 Food - gatherers , neolithic , 131 Food - gathering , 99 ; re- wards of , 106 Food plants , post - neolithic , 134 , 135 Food resources , improve- ment of ...
... increase of , 130 ; preparation of , 154 ; tropical , 132 Food - collecting , 101 Food - gatherers , neolithic , 131 Food - gathering , 99 ; re- wards of , 106 Food plants , post - neolithic , 134 , 135 Food resources , improve- ment of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York