"Apehood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unit of human society is the family, and it was by the establishment of definite and permanent family relationships that the step was taken which raised Man socially above the level of gregarious apehood. This great point was attained through that lengthening of the period of helpless childhood which accompanied the gradually increasing intelligence of our half-human ancestors. When childhood had come to extend over a period of ten or a dozen years—a period which would ...
— The Destiny of Man - Viewed in the Light of His Origin • John Fiske |
