A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 10

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

X THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN About fifty or sixty thousand years ago, before the climax of the Fourth Glacial Age, there lived a creature on earth so like a man that until a few years ago its ...Read Morewere considered to be altogether human. We have skulls and bones of it and a great accumulation of the large implements it made and used. It made fires. It sheltered in caves from the cold. It probably dressed skins roughly and wore them. It was right-handed as men are. Yet now the ethnologists tell us these creatures were not true Read Less