Friday, May 13, 2022

REGARDING the Just So Stories We Live With


 

When I arrived home yesterday I found that Mr. Bird had been watching a lot of PBS Eons programs, which he invited me to view also.  

I watched one or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCW0zyDGuXc

The explanations of what various very small pieces of bone indicated in terms of human history and development reminded me of nothing so much as Kipling's Just So stories.  

PS, Neanderthals are just people!  lol


You may read the Just So stories for yourself at Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2781/2781-h/2781-h.htm

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