A Story Outline of Evolution 



world for civilization and gave to man mastery in the king- 

 dom of life. 



The fossil evidence of early human intelligence is brought 

 to us through the imperishable tools and weapons that he 

 made from flint. They were first made and used at a period 

 of time when the geographic boundaries and climatic condi- 

 tions of Europe were much different from that of today. 

 They were made and used at a period of time when primi- 

 tive man was still in the Mousterian or Neanderthal stage, 

 part human, part animal, and while great herds of wild 

 horses, bison, elk, the cave bear and the cave lion, the hairy 

 mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and many other species of wild 

 animals, now extinct, roamed over and occupied the Euro- 

 pean continent and adjacent countries. 



The only weapons of attack and defense that he had 

 were the flint knives, flint or stone axes, flint spears, and 

 the bow and arrow. The law of the jungle was the only 

 law he knew. It was the "survival of the fittest." When 

 we consider that it was with these crude weapons that he 

 established mastery and dominion over all the beasts of 

 the forests that were larger and more vicious than any we 

 know today, we shall then appreciate the force of the bow 

 and arrow as a weapon and the part it has played in the 

 advancement and progress of our civilization. 



Scientists tell us that Neanderthal man roamed in vast 

 herds over the greater part of Europe, England and Ireland 

 at the time of the last Ice Age. At this time, England and 

 Ireland were, perhaps as yet, a part of the continent. There 

 is some evidence that he occupied what is now the valley of 

 the Nile River in Egypt at a time when its surface geologic 



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