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Rh a tool-maker, and the successful application of this discovery to practical life is alone sufficient to place man in a category by himself.

Thus with bipedal locomotion, limbs specialized into hands and feet, Homo sapiens started on his human career as a tool-maker. Only in brain capacity and a corresponding deficiency in the exercise of the reasoning faculty was he below civilized man of to-day. His subsequent career, as an inhabitant of Britain, falls to be described in this book; and then we shall have an opportunity of correlating the products of his mechanical skill with development of his brain. Along with this book there should be read the volumes on Anthropology (Marett) and The Dawn of History (Myres) in this Library. 

the remarks made in the previous chapter it will be seen that the evolution of man has passed through two chronological stages. The first coincided with the time during which the morphological changes involved in the permanent assumption of the erect attitude were being effected. The second ranges contemporaneously with the