A Story Outline of Evolution 



cold; that their bones could be cracked into splinters which 

 he could use for awls in puncturing and sewing the skins 

 together. 



It is not definitely known how long it required primitive 

 man to learn the use of these simple aids nor how far their 

 discoveries are removed from the present time, but it is 

 known from drawings on cavern walls, from images carved 

 on ivory and stone, from man made implements found 

 buried in ancient river beds and elsewhere that it was at a time 

 when many animals now extinct, such as the mammoth, bison, 

 wild horse, elk and other species roamed over Europe and 

 when climatic conditions were far different than they are 

 today. By applying all the knowledge acquired by scientific 

 searchers to the evidence thus gathered many scientists place 

 this period at approximately 200,000 years ago, while others 

 place this period at more than double that length of time. 



It was during this period of discovery that man first 

 began to reason. It is the very dawn of civilization where 

 man's achievements began. Beyond this point there is, as 

 yet, no light that can penetrate the darkness to discover 

 more of his mental actions. The fossil evidence in the form 

 of crude flint chips and drawings mark the end of the road 

 which our civilization has traveled. The form and struc- 

 ture of his body may be traced many centuries beyond this 

 period, but his mental actions, at present, can not be further 

 traced. 



It is from these simple discoveries as a starting point 

 that all of the mechanical devices have sprung. Securing 

 food was a matter of life or death with primitive man. The 

 many drawings on cavern walls of the dangerous and giant 



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