You Shall Know Them"...A species of primate is discovered [in New Guinea] which fits in the margin of all our definitions of 'humanity'; it becomes the focal point of a speculative attempt to specifiy exactly what we mean -- or ought to mean -- by 'Man'." --ESF. |
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