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Man's emerging mind : man's progress through time - trees, ice, flood, atoms, and the universe / N.J. Berrill.
LIBRA Rare QH367 .B53 1955 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berrill, N. J. (Norman John), 1903-1996, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution--History.
- Evolution.
- History.
- Progress.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi unnumbered pages, vii-xii, 308 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Apollo Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York 1955.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Prelude
- Contents
- I who speak
- Time binders
- Patterns and bones
- Climbers
- Sitters
- Walkers
- Matrix of the mind
- Exploding brains
- The essence
- Ice, fire, and stones
- Naked and tanned
- Old mortality
- Beauty and the beast
- Points of view
- The face of circumstance
- Rain, race, and transition
- The human crop
- Growing up
- Atoms and genes
- Personal equation
- The shape of wonder
- Star of destiny
- For further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from title page verso.
- "Printed in the United States of America"; from title page verso.
- Includes index.
- "A9" - from front cover and spine.
- Includes half-title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- OCLC:
- 4143464
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