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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2430156" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Well it's an hilarious book, much odd stuff along with some theories that seem to be coming back into fashion (like the influence of the ice ages on the development of human intelligence, or the relatively recent ape-human split - not so long ago that was placed at ca 20 million years ago, his estimate "over 1.5 million" is too recent but is a lot closer to current DNA evidence indicating the last split for existing DNA lines, chimp-human, was ca 3.5-4 million years ago).  Of course his post-Great War belief in progress & rationality seems incredibly overoptimistic from a perspective 84 years later - "Of course no one today doubts the truth of evolution" and such.  The funniest bit so far (leaving aside racial commentaries) was his determination that Crete was the true original civilisation, a European civilisation, of which Egypt & Sumeria were later, somewhat degenerate offshoots.  That the archaeological evidence _of his own time_ didn't really support this, and he knows it, made it a lot funnier.  Author is Joseph McCabe.  I'm finding it very Howardesque, it's a good source for Conanesque thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>