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... survival of stone artifacts was enough to establish their pre - eminence . But as a matter of fact , this apparently solid evidence is full of holes ; and its inadequacy has been covered over by speculations far more airy than any I ...
... survival of stone artifacts was enough to establish their pre - eminence . But as a matter of fact , this apparently solid evidence is full of holes ; and its inadequacy has been covered over by speculations far more airy than any I ...
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... survival . Here again the arbitrary Victorian principle of parsimony has misled us : that principle does not do justice to the extravagances and exuberances of nature . Dr. Walter Cannon demonstrated the rationale of organic sur- pluses ...
... survival . Here again the arbitrary Victorian principle of parsimony has misled us : that principle does not do justice to the extravagances and exuberances of nature . Dr. Walter Cannon demonstrated the rationale of organic sur- pluses ...
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... survival as the explanatory source of self - directive and teleological phenomena . Singer , Charles . A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century . Oxford : 1941 . Useful short summary . Singer , Charles , E. J. Holmyard , and ...
... survival as the explanatory source of self - directive and teleological phenomena . Singer , Charles . A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century . Oxford : 1941 . Useful short summary . Singer , Charles , E. J. Holmyard , and ...
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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