In Search of Adam: The Story of Man's Quest for the Truth about His Earliest AncestorsThe uncovering of prehistory is probably the most dramatic chapter of natural history, full of incident and intrigue, as well as of human tragedy. If the evidence of prehistory is examined with the eye of the professional student it acquires an uncanny reality. It emerges from the museums, the cabinets of specimens and the libraries, dissipating the mists of ignorance that obscure the epochs of human and cultural evolution by which the fate of our world has been decided. |
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... bones which included a skull of gigantic size with a great hole under the forehead . The Greek philosopher Empedocles had already men- tioned such finds , calling them the " bones of Polyphemus . " Boc- caccio shared his opinion . He ...
... bones which included a skull of gigantic size with a great hole under the forehead . The Greek philosopher Empedocles had already men- tioned such finds , calling them the " bones of Polyphemus . " Boc- caccio shared his opinion . He ...
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... bones had been made there . There had originally been a large number of limestone caves in the Neanderthal . But they had gradually been demolished by the quarrying . We may assume that in this process many precious bones ...
... bones had been made there . There had originally been a large number of limestone caves in the Neanderthal . But they had gradually been demolished by the quarrying . We may assume that in this process many precious bones ...
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... bones really dated from the Ice Age . Neither the bones of Diluvial animals nor tools of the Old Stone Age had been found in the cave . The place , as Fuhlrott himself had implied , was practically inacces- sible . Probably rain water ...
... bones really dated from the Ice Age . Neither the bones of Diluvial animals nor tools of the Old Stone Age had been found in the cave . The place , as Fuhlrott himself had implied , was practically inacces- sible . Probably rain water ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
THE MAN WHO CLASSIFIED NATURE | 25 |
LINKS BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST | 56 |
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