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THE HOW AND WHY WONDER BOOK OF
Written by DONALD BARR
Assistant Dean, School of Engineering
Columbia University, New York
Illustrated by MATTHEW KALMENOFF
Editorial Production: DONALD D. WOLF
Edited under the supervision of
Dr. Paul E. Blackwood.
Washington, D. C.
Text and illustrations approved by
Oakes A. White, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, New York
GROSSET & DUNLP Publishers NEW YORK
Contents
Page
THE NEW ANIMAL 3
BEFORE HISTORY 7
What does "prehistoric" mean? 7
When did prehistory start? 7
How do we fnd out about prehistory?
Who are the experts on prehistory?
How do we fnd the records of the past? !U
How do the records of the past get buried? !U
Ho do we know how old things are? !2
WHERE DID MAN COME FROM? I3
Where did living things come from?
What is evolution?
How do diferent animals evolve?
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What is natural selection? I
How did the girafe get its neck? I
Do all people believe the theory of evolution? !7
AND THEN ... MAN! I7
Were our ancestors apes? I7
When did the frst men appear? I9
What was the Ice Age? I9
Ape-men or man-apes? 21
What is ptlhccanlhropuscrcclus/ 22
Who was Peking Man? 23
Who was the frst European? 24
Who were the Neanderthals? 24
Who were the frst "modern" men? 2
Were the early Europeans white men? 27
What is a race? 28
Why did races evolve? 29
Why are some races dark-skinned? 29
Why are some races pudgy? J1
Are some races smarter? 31
MAN'S WORKS 33
What were the frst traces of early man? J3
What is a tool? 34
What were the frst tools? 3
How old are the earliest tools? 3
How were "fst axes" made? 37
How were "fake tools" made? 37
What tools did Peking Man use? 38
What did man invent in the Ice Age? J8
STORY OF THE CAVE MAN
PAINTINGS 39
HOW DID CIVILIZATION COME
TO THE CAVE MEN? 47
Where did civilization begin? 47
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PROTEROZOIC
ARCHEOZOIC
PALEOZOIC
1,50
MILLION
YEARS
ONLY FEW
FOSSILS FOUND
CAMBRIAN
90 MILLION
YEARS
ORDOVICIAN
75 MILLION
YEARS
INVERTEBRATES
340 MILLION YEARS
SILURIAN
35 MILLION
YEARS
FISHES
DEVONIAN
65 MILLION
YEARS
RBONIFEROUS
50 MILLION
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AMPHIBIANS
PERMIAN
25 MILLION
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TRIASSIC
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MESOZOIC
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MAMMALS
Early man used primitive but deadly weapons as he
hunted the mastodon, an ancestor of the elephant.
There is something wrong with this picture. A dino
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dinosaurs were already extinct whe man emerged.
The chart is a record of life on earth as told in its
rocks. It is dividd into eras, which are divided into
periods, and shows the form of life dominant in each
phase of the earth's geological history. You can
see how late is man's appearance on the earth.
All fgures in the chart signify duration of time.
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OF ROCK
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Each year, tree-trunks grow thicker by adding a new layer of wood
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weather, they are thick. By measuring the thickness of the rings,
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tree with the inside ring of a living one and carry the weather
history back a hundred years more. An older tree, dead and buried,
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found in the diggings can be determined by looking at the tree
ring weather-history for the part of the worl d where it was dug
up. And that will tell you when the wood layers were formed.
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Scientists believe that the devel
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with one-celled animals. After
to billion years, man emerged.
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