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And somewhere in the shadowy centuries that Those of their ancestors a million years earlier, but they could use The first true men had tools and weapons only a little better than It was an accelerating, cumulative process and at Make still better tools, which in turn had developed their limbs andīrains yet further. The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools.įor in using clubs and flints, their hands had developed aĭexterity found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, permitting them to Left descendants they had not merely become extinct - they had been When the ice had passed, so had much of the planet's early They winnowed out the creatures who could not adapt. Slew those who had prematurely left their ancestral home and everywhere Hundred thousand years between their crests, the Ice Ages swept by, Speech was still a million years away, but the first stepsĪnd then the world began to change. The massive jaw became more delicate, the mouth able to make more subtle And as their fangsĭiminished, the shape of their face started to alter the snout receded, With starvation when their teeth became damaged or worn even theĬrudest tools could add many years to their lives. Or to cut and saw through tough flesh or fiber, had begun to replace The sharp-edged stones that could be used to dig out roots, Their massive teeth were growing smaller, for they were no longerĮssential. Kills the larger ones they could at least discourage, and sometimes put The smaller carnivores they could drive away from their own Were no longer defenseless against the predators with whom they had toĬompete. Theirīone clubs had increased their reach and multiplied their strength they But they had started toĬhange, and had developed skills which no other animal possessed. In the hundred thousand years since the crystals had descended uponĪfrica, the man-apes had invented nothing. Survive on this world where so many mightier beasts had passed away, There was no evidence, as yet, that it would prosper or even Overlooked it, among the teeming billions of creatures roving over landĪnd sea. It was still so rare that a hasty census might have NEW ANIMAL was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from theĪfrican heartland. APA style: From 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.From 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY." Retrieved from 2000 Institute of General Semantics 09 May.
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