A Story Outline of Evolution 



manner as do the grass eating animals of the present time. 

 He had no idea of game preservation and protection and 

 the eggs of birds and waterfowl furnished him with another 

 item of food. For unknown centuries, the flesh of the beasts 

 he killed was eaten raw. Doubtless, much of this was in a 

 putrid condition. Like the animals of today, the stench of 

 putrefaction was pleasing to his sense of smell. At a period 

 dating back some 25,000 years ago, we find the ashes of his 

 hearth fires and a cupped out stone which was the beginning 

 of the grease lamp. This is evidence that he had begun to 

 cook his food and to use the animal oil for lighting pur- 

 poses. He doubtless rendered out and preserved the ani- 

 mal oils in order that his cave dwellings might be made a 

 more cheerful place in which to live. Many of the carv- 

 ings on cavern walls depicting now extinct species of ani- 

 mals, could have been made only by the use of artificial 

 light. His mind had reached a stage where it was restless 

 and craved action. While he was hemmed in from the win- 

 ter's storm, he found relief in painting or carving the pic- 

 tures that clung to his memory upon the cave walls or on 

 pieces of ivory from the gigantic hairy elephant that fell 

 a prey to his cunning. Little did he realize that he was 

 leaving a record of his achievements that would be eagerly 

 studied by his descendants, eager to learn something of his 

 ways of living, 25,000 or 50,000 years after the record was 

 made. His mind was as yet in an unorganized state and 

 it required long periods of time for a change to come about, 

 but experience was giving him new ideas which were being 

 slowly tested out and put into action. 



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