The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... earliest ancestors . The first real men , Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis , were hunters , only a short way removed from the animals they killed and ate . Even today , the primitive groups that remain in the world show us how early ...
... earliest ancestors . The first real men , Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis , were hunters , only a short way removed from the animals they killed and ate . Even today , the primitive groups that remain in the world show us how early ...
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... early flying reptile such as Pterodon , or early bird such as archaeopteryx . Indeed the first specimen of that oldest bird was called ' the griffin lizard ' by Andreas Wagner after its discovery in 1861. The curious combination of ...
... early flying reptile such as Pterodon , or early bird such as archaeopteryx . Indeed the first specimen of that oldest bird was called ' the griffin lizard ' by Andreas Wagner after its discovery in 1861. The curious combination of ...
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... earliest of printed books . The first pictures of the Barnacle Goose tree appear in the edition of 1491. These ... early volumes of the august Philosophical Trans- actions of the Royal Society , Sir Robert Moray described , albeit ...
... earliest of printed books . The first pictures of the Barnacle Goose tree appear in the edition of 1491. These ... early volumes of the august Philosophical Trans- actions of the Royal Society , Sir Robert Moray described , albeit ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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