One Cosmic Instant

able adapted Africa ancestors ancient animals apes appear Aristotle australopithecines became become behavior biological biosphere birds brain carnivores cave century chimpanzees Christian components concept conspicuous creatures Cro-Magnon culture Descartes dominance doubt early Earth ecosystem environment environmental evolution evolutionary evolved existed extinct fact female fire forest Galapagos Garrett Hardin genetic gorillas green heron Homo erectus human hunter hunting dogs hyenas individual industrial islands killing kind king vulture leopard less lichen lions living things magic male mammals man-apes man's million mind modern monkeys Neanderthal nonhuman nature North America ocean organisms perhaps permafrost phytoplankton plants Pleistocene population possible power structure predators prey primate probably Reason relatively religion robin Romanticism says sea cucumber social societies soil song sparrow sparrow species survive Teilhard territorial thought tion tradition trees ture Western whales wildlife young