neolithic

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The true and fundamental appeal of the paleo approach is that we are attempting to operate pre-neolithic, i.e., in a manner our bodies and minds evolved to optimize, which is the role of natural selection.

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  1. Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone; the late stone age. Estimated as beginning around 9000 b. c. in the Middle East, this period is characterized by the beginnings of farming, the domestication of animals, and the manufacture of textiles and pottery.

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  1. latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
  2. of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic)

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  • He belongs to the early neolithic or thereabouts And he a professor There is the wonder of it! —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
  • It was an identity he guarded, like the neolithic men who hunted and fought and died as Running Wolf, Sitting Bear, Bird-in-the-Grass, but whose real names were kept hidden to give them secret strength, to protect them from their enemies. —  MacInnes, Helen - The Venetian Affair
  • As Clare says, for the neolithic farmers, this was a huge building project so they must have treated the site as we would treat our own churches and cathedrals.
  • The true and fundamental appeal of the paleo approach is that we are attempting to operate pre-neolithic, i.e., in a manner our bodies and minds evolved to optimize, which is the role of natural selection. —  Free the Animal
  • On the other hand, the story, in E.M. Forster's context, is the vestige of neolithic or paleolithic days when Neanderthal man huddle together while one of them tells how he had managed to pwn a wild beast. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
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