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Outline of History
Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
By H. G. Wells
Dedication
This work is dedicated to the Public Domain by Norman M. Wolcott.
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THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKIND
By H. G. Wells
WRITTEN ORIGINALLY WITH THE ADVICE AND EDITORIAL HELP OF MR. ERNEST BARKER, SIR H. H. JOHSTON, SIR E. RAY. LANKESTER, AND PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY, AND ILLUSTRATED BY J. F. HORRABIN
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
Containing all maps, charts, illustrations, diagrams, etc. 1200 pages
GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
(c) 1920 by H. G. Wells
Table of Contents
1.0 The Earth in Space and Time
2.0 The Record of the Rocks
2.1 The First Living Things
2.2 How Old is the World
3.0 Natural Selection and Changes of Species
4.0 The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life
4.1 Life and Water
4.2 The Earliest Animals
5.0 The Age of Reptiles
5.1 The Age of Lowland Life
5.2 Flying Dragons
5.3 The First Birds
5.4 An Age of Hardship and Death
5.5 The First Appearance of Fur and Feathers
6.0 The Age of Mammals
6.1 A New Age of Life
6.2 Tradition Comes Into the World
6.3 An Age of Brain Growth
6.4 The World Grows Hard Again
7.0 The Ancestry of Man
7.1 Man Descended From a Walking Ape
7.2 First Traces of Man-like Creatures
7.3 The Heidelberg Sub-Man
7.4 The Piltdown Sub-Man