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CHAPTER

I. PRIMITIVE ANCESTORS 1
Origin and Early Days of the Brain

II. ANCESTORS BEFORE THE APES 24
The Brain from Fish to Man

III. MAN IN THE MAKING 51
Human Progress from Prehistoric to Modern Times

IV. EDEN OR EVOLUTION 85
Genesis and the Origin of Species

V. BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY BEGINNINGS OF MAN 107
Influences of Forest and Plain on Brain Development

VI. DAWN OF THE PRIMATE BRAIN 129
The Lowest of the Monkey Kind

VII. ON THE WAY UPWARD 152
Brains of the Old World Monkeys

VIII. MANLIKE TENDENCIES 168
Brains of Gibbon and Orang-Outang

IX. HUMAN IN MINIATURE 186
The Brain of the Chimpanzee

X. ALMOST HUMAN 212
The Brain of the Gorilla

XI. HUMAN AT LAST 239
The Brain of Prehistoric Man

XII. IMPLEMENTS OF HUMAN SUCCESS 267
How the Hand, Foot, and Brain Led the Way to Humanity

XIII. ESTIMATES AND VALUES 301
Assets and Liabilities of the Human Brain

XIV. THE FINAL TEST OF THE BRAIN 330
World Coöperation and Recivilization

THE MASTER OF DESTINY