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Hamlet53 · 03-25-2011, 07:45 AM

You might want to hunt up Evolution Man by Roy Lewis. I would have nominated it for this months book club, but it is not available as an ebook. In fact it was hard to track down a copy. Very funny though.

Spoiler:

James Thurber's stuff is always funny as well.

03-25-2011, 07:45 AM	#7
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	You might want to hunt up Evolution Man by Roy Lewis. I would have nominated it for this months book club, but it is not available as an ebook. In fact it was hard to track down a copy. Very funny though. Spoiler: The Evolution Man is a novel about your basic upwardly mobile Pleistocene cave family - as they come down from trees (except for Uncle Vanya, who insists that it's the stupidest thing man ever did), dislodge a family of bears from the best cave in the neighborhood, and widen their digestive horizons to keep down things not only disgusting but disagreeable as well. Life cannot be all snails and sweetbreads. Recorded here is the correct version of the invention of fire, the first intellectual argument about shadows, and an eye-witness account of the first human courtship. James Thurber's stuff is always funny as well.