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In the hundred thousand years since the crystals had descended upon Africa, the man-apes had invented nothingBut they had started to change, and had developed skills which no other animal possessedTheir bone clubs had increased their reach and multiplied their strength; they were no longer defenseless against the predators with whom they had to competeThe smaller carnivores they could drive away from their own kills;Isabel Marant Bekketthe larger ones they could at least discourage, and sometimes put to flight.For in using clubs and flints, their hands had developed a dexterity found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, permitting them to make still better tools, which in turn had developed their limbs and brains yet furtherIt was an accelerating, cumulative process; and at its end was Man.

Their massive teeth were growing smaller, for they were no longer essentialThe sharp-edged stones that could be used to dig out roots, or to cut and saw through tough flesh or fiber, had begun to replace them, with immeasurable consequencesNo longer were the man-apes faced with starvation when their teeth became damaged or worn; even the crudest tools could add many years to their livesAnd as their fangs diminished, the shape of their face started to alter; the snout receded, the massive jaw became more delicate, the mouth able to make more subtle soundsSpeech was still a million years away,Isabel Marant Shoesbut the first steps toward it had been taken.And then the world began to changeIn four great waves, with two hundred thousand years between their crests, the Ice Ages swept by, leaving their mark on all the globeOutside the tropics, the glaciers slew those who had prematurely left their ancestral home; and everywhere they winnowed out the creatures who could not adapt.

The first true men had tools and weapons only a little better than those of their ancestors a million years earlier, but they could use them with far greater skillAnd somewhere in the shadowy centuries that had gone before they had invented the most essential tool of all, though it could be neither seen nor touchedThey had learned to speak, and so had won their first great victory over TimeNow the knowledge of one generation could be handed on to the next, so that each age could profit from those that had gone before.
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