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Michel permitted himself a little cackle at primitive man's expense.

This chapter explains the evolution of pump shaft packing with the help of primitive man's design used for building boats namely rudders.

Anthropologists suggest that this pattern may have evolved to help primitive man's grip and traction while hunting and fighting.

His discussions of primitive man's common African gene pool; of how the "Hilly Flanks" in the Middle East developed after the Ice Age; and of China's ancient Zhou dynasty can seem awfully remote.

The TV adverts, the first of which goes out tomorrow, will tell the story of primitive man's descent into flab, depicting colourful characters swinging clubs and climbing fruit trees in the Stone Age before they succumb to a more sedentary modern lifestyle.

No, this takes us much further back, to the prehistoric dawn of art and of human consciousness, to the realisation that, as Lewis Mumford expressed it in The City in History, "the performance of art itself added something just as essential to primitive man's life as the carnal rewards of the hunt".

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If someone told you that Jerusalem's Primitive Man or Little Free Rock's Dream had actually been released not in 1972 or 1969 but on Sub Pop, around the time of Nirvana's debut album, you wouldn't bat an eyelid.

"Liberty Valance," Ford's last great western and his saddest, was a crisis for the genre that turned on the usurpation of the primitive man of action's role in taming the West by the man of words, the Eastern lawyer Ransom Stoddard James Stewartt).

Diamond said he agreed neither with the notion that culture is a process of improvement away from primitive man, nor with Rousseau's idea of the "noble savage".

Primitive man relied on his body's system to gear-up for flight or fight.

To the doctor's delight and the dog's astonishment, Sharik transmogrifies into a primitive man.

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