A Story Outline of Evolution 



Throughout unknown ages, he had depended upon the 

 swiftness of motion and his abihty to cHmb as a means of 

 safety against the attacks of larger and more dangerous 

 animals. He now met these attacks with a piercing sting 

 from a sharp pointed and penetrating arrow. Instinct soon 

 taught the beasts of the forests that he was a dangerous 

 creature and that he should be shunned. This same instinc- 

 tive impulse is seen in animals today. A rattlesnake by 

 giving a warning alarm will sometimes stampede a herd of 

 cattle on the western plains. A nest of hornets or bumble- 

 bees will put to rout the largest of both domestic and wild 

 animals. The beast method of fighting is by the use of 

 muscular force and the weapons which nature has given to 

 them and when they discover that some other creature 

 possesses an advantage that they do not have, instinct 

 teaches them that retreat is the most certain means of 

 safety. They have no pride of courage when the odds are 

 against them. 



Only when primitive man had reached the stage of 

 development that he was feared, did he then become the 

 aggressor. The flesh of his animal enemies became his 

 food. Instead of being the hunted, he became the hunter. 

 His task of securing food was now much easier to perform. 

 The Chellean and early Mousterian races of men were more 

 herbivorous than carnivorous but, then as now, environment 

 doubtless played a large part in the food they used. 



We have seen that he learned that with the use of a rock 

 held in his hand, he could crack a nut or the large bones of 

 the beasts he killed with greater ease than could be done 

 with his teeth. This act was the principle of the hammer. 



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