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Article: Why we all still think like cavemen.(Book Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2005
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Byline: FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
Ideas: A History From Fire to Freud by Peter Watson (Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]30) FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO CAVEMEN really were like us: with the same minds and many of the same thoughts. There have been no known changes in human intelligence for scores of thousands of years. " Stoneage affluence" ensured abundant game, high levels of nutrition and leisure unequalled in most modern societies for observing nature and thinking about the observations.
The results are visible in the sublime achievements of paleolithic art.
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