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...would like to commend you for your article [July 12] on Martin Buber. I feel that your words on the subtly profound philosophy of Buber, indicating that his life's thought might have a definite, here-and-now influence on the chances of Homo sapiens' continuing existence this side of holocaust, were complete, lucid, and maybe even eloquent...
...Houk was re-tooling the New York pitching staff into its best shape in recent years, other parts of the Yankee games developed fortuitously. Roger Maris, batting .261 when Mantle departed, began to take Mickey's place as a reliable power hitter. Maris is now hitting .299, with 17 homo runs, and has won numerous games with crucial extra-base hits...
...simply. Rejecting the conventional concept that races are rather recent--anywhere from several hundred years old to a few tens of thousands of years old--he postulates that racial differentiation took place early along five geographically separate lines. Each of these lines split from a single parent stock, homo erectus, and at different times independently developed into homo sapiens. "Homo erectus, then, evolved into homo sapiens not once but five times, as each subspecies, living in its own territory, passed a critical threshold from a more brutal to a more sapient state...
...Inheritors, by William Golding. Neanderthals battle Homo sapiens, and the future looks only dimly promising in this gripping novel about the beginning of mankind...
...Inheritors, by William Golding. Neanderthals battle Homo sapiens and the future looks bleak indeed in this gripping novel about the beginning of mankind...