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To: Road Walker who wrote (792)	11/7/2015 10:07:32 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Road Walker Read Replies (1) of 935

Roadwalker you MUST get the Axemaker's Gift by James Burke and Robert Ornstein. Just trust me! It is the most interesting and fun book to read I have ever read. Period. Burke and Ornstein take you back 4 million years to when we first started chipping flint and then take you on a ride to the present and how the technology of tools shaped our thinking. I have been posting some of the stuff on the left thread. It is amazing. For 50 years I wondered why the Greeks got so smart at the time. They explain it. It was adapting the Phoenician alphabet. Why written language is superior to oral and the difference. It provides timelines and accuracy. How tool making required the development of language to pass on the skill. How the difficult Japanese language makes it so much more work for them to learn. Every page is amazing. It will blow your mind. As you know Burke is a scientific historian and puts stuff on PBS and Ornstein is a world authority on the brain. Their collaboration ensures accuracy as much as possible.

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