One Cosmic Instant: Man's Fleeting SupremacyHoughton Mifflin, 1973 - 243 pages |
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adapted Africa ancestors ancient animals apes appear arctic Aristotle australopithecines balsam fir became become behavior biological biosphere birds brain carnivores cave century chimpanzees Christian concept conspicuous COSMIC INSTANT creatures Cro-Magnon culture dominance Earth echinoderm ecological ecosystem environment environmental erectus evolution evolutionary evolved existence extinct fact female fire forest Galapagos genetic green heron heron Homo Homo erectus human hunter hyenas important individual industrial islands John killing kind land Leo Marx leopard less lichen lions Lister Sinclair living things Livingston longer magic male mammals man-apes man's million mind monkeys Neanderthal nonhuman nature North America ocean organisms penguins perhaps permafrost plants Pleistocene population possible power structure predators prey primate probably Reason relatively says sea cucumber social societies soil song sparrow species survive territorial thought tion tradition trees tundra ture Western whales wild wilderness wildlife young