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... species , from the bees and the birds to the dolphins and the elephants , or the ancestral species from which both apes and hominids evolved . But the final break - through came with the appearance of the creature we now identify as man ...
... species , from the bees and the birds to the dolphins and the elephants , or the ancestral species from which both apes and hominids evolved . But the final break - through came with the appearance of the creature we now identify as man ...
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... species of plants , over twelve hundred thousand species of animals , helped to compose the environment that man found at his disposal , to say nothing of countless varieties of other organisms : some two million species altogether . As ...
... species of plants , over twelve hundred thousand species of animals , helped to compose the environment that man found at his disposal , to say nothing of countless varieties of other organisms : some two million species altogether . As ...
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... species - themselves singled out of hundreds of thou- sands of species - that he must have sampled . All man's food resources and most of the materials for clothing , shelter , and transportation were identified and utilized before the ...
... species - themselves singled out of hundreds of thou- sands of species - that he must have sampled . All man's food resources and most of the materials for clothing , shelter , and transportation were identified and utilized before the ...
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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