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7.25 Professor W. W. WATTS: The Origins of Life-VI, Man the Hunter, the Fisherman, the Shepherd, and the Farmer, in his relationship to his environment ' /
PROFESSOR W. W. WATTS , whose contributions to the recent series of science talks, ' How the World Began,' will be fresh in listeners' minds, is giving the concluding talk in the present scries. He is Professor of Geology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. His talk this evening is in the nature ot a rounding-off ' of the survey of the origins of life, as revealed in fossils, etc., up to the time of early man. The occupations of primitive man, dictated by his relationship to his environment; the clearing of forests and the gradual growth of towns; the harnessing of natural resources and the final establishment of lines of Communication and transport, are among the phases of this far-away history that Professor Watts will discuss.

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