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...last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo neandertalensis...
...Fight for Life, Ecce Homo (a film about unemployment now in production) and several shorts, WPA had provided $162,500 more...
...wipe the planet out of existence. It is true, he observed last week, that practically none of the placental mammals (of which man is one) has maintained itself as a species for more than two or three million years, and the average must be about half a million. Since Homo sapiens has already existed for some 50,000 years, he has 450,000 years to go if the average applies - "then either oblivion as we reach the end of a blind alley or progressive development into some type of descendant better adjusted than we to the total environmental factors...
Cheerful note: Homo sapiens, practically as he stands, may beat the average because the vast army of extinct mammals had no control over their environment, whereas modern man is controlling his environment more & more all the time...
...thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine than young Homo sapiens, breed he ever so artfully...