| Freud was still free to contemplate the human project as something cut from whole cloth, personal and human time, not as a history of subtle accretions and increments through millions of years, but as if in the thousands reflected in Judeo-Christian cosmogony (in the 1880's the relationships between "Cro-Magnon" and Neanderthal were unclear, by the 1930's it was assumed that modern man had emerged in an Asiatic zone and swiftly displaced the Neanderthal. |
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Freud was undoubtedly familiar with the contemporary belief that the earliest man traced his roots back at least one hundred thousand years). | |
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