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"I know few authors who would have dared to treat so wide a subject in a single volume--nothing less than the fifty-thousand-year history of human civilization--nor would have succeeded so brilliantly in their chosen task. If all that Coon had achieved was a succinct survey of our human... read more
First Sentence
This book is really two books, dealing with different subjects, and cobbled together by the fact that human societies grow over time and evolve in the general direction of greater complexity.
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- Carleton S. Coon (Author)
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