The Making of Man
by I. W. Cornwall, M. Maitland Howard (Illustrator)
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- The Making of Man
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- 1960
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- human evolution
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- Evolution, literally meaning 'unrolling', is the name given to the extremel slow process of development of lliving things, both plants and animals, from simpler to more complex forms.
Introduction: If we reflect a little about our world today, we may begin to wonder how it came to be as it is. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The 80-ft monsters with hen's-egg-sized brains could not have conceived on men. How, then, can we hope to imagine what sort of natural beings will take our places if - or, rather, when - Homo sapiens becomes extinct? They will be different. That is all we know.
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