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From 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From 2001: A Space Odyssey.(Time-Binding Tales The First Steps)(Excerpt)

Article Excerpt
A NEW ANIMAL was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from the African heartland. It was still so rare that a hasty census might have overlooked it, among the teeming billions of creatures roving over land and sea. There was no evidence, as yet, that it would prosper or even survive; on this world where so many mightier beasts had passed away, its fate still wavered in the balance.

In the hundred thousand years since the crystals had descended upon Africa, the man-apes had invented nothing. But they had started to change, and had developed skills which no other animal possessed. Their bone clubs had increased their reach and multiplied their strength; they were no longer defenseless against the predators with...

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