An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . t a disadvantage with the clever and thequick. Docility of disposition, a readiness to take upnew methods of food getting and better appreciation ofthe value of persistent activity along peaceful ratherthan warlike lines must have counted for much. Thewholesale weeding out of the less vigorous physically,of the sluggish intellectually, and in general of thoseleast adapted to the conditions which made for progress,meant the survival and perpetuation of better racial the process of selection operated to favor ce
An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . t a disadvantage with the clever and thequick. Docility of disposition, a readiness to take upnew methods of food getting and better appreciation ofthe value of persistent activity along peaceful ratherthan warlike lines must have counted for much. Thewholesale weeding out of the less vigorous physically,of the sluggish intellectually, and in general of thoseleast adapted to the conditions which made for progress,meant the survival and perpetuation of better racial the process of selection operated to favor certainlasting cultural elements as well as to exterminate ten-dencies in unprogressive directions. The total conse-quence was that from this seething riot of new experi-ences and the constant testing of diverse physical, in-tellectual, and cultural elements, there emerged a newand higher culture,—the neolithic. The neolithic men had learned the lesson of patience;they had domesticated the horse, ox, pig, sheep, goat anddog. The men of the rough stone ages had failed to.
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