A Story Outline of Evolution 



sentence was expressed with a single word. Anatomists tell 

 us that their language must of necessity have been very 

 simple. They developed and used new weapons of stone and 

 improved on the types that they had inherited from their 

 predecessors. They w^ere the first, so far as is now known, 

 to make use of fire as an aid in keeping warm. The ashes 

 of their fires may still be found in many caves. They were 

 the first to use the rendered fat of the animals they had killed 

 for artificial light. Crude grease lamps have been found in 

 the caves that they occupied. They were the first to begin 

 the art of picture making by transforming some vivid 

 memory picture of the chase to the cavern walls that afforded 

 them shelter and protection. As the great Ice Age came 

 upon them after they had lived for thousands of years in a 

 warm climate, they were, doubtless, the first to make use of 

 the skins of animals for clothing. They believed in a rein- 

 carnated life after death because they buried their choicest 

 tools and weapons and a bountiful supply of food with their 

 dead. They were the first "cave men" as a matter of self- 

 preservation for when the great Ice Age came upon them, 

 they had to migrate to a warmer climate, to seek the shelter 

 of the caves or perish. But their race is run. They have 

 vanished from the earth after being the dominant creatures 

 thereon for a period of approximately 100,000 years. They 

 may have died from starvation as a result of a famine. Their 

 food supply may have moved on or given out. They may 

 have died from pestilence. Their skeleton forms bear evi- 

 dence that they suffered from many of the same ills that we 

 suffer today from mastoid abscesses, toothache, arthritis and 

 many other human ills. The Searchers tell us that we are 



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