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Erectus Walks Amongst Us
The evolution of modern humans
by
Richard D. Fuerle
The author is a retired patent attorney who lives on a small wildlife refuge on an island in
upstate of New York. A perpetual student, he has degrees in math (BS), law (JD), economics
(MA), physics (BA), and chemistry (BA). He is an amateur composer
(www.whiskeyrebellion.us) and has written books on Austrian economics
(www.purelogic.us), natural rights (www.naturalrights.us), and anarchy
(www.anarchism.net/steppes.htm).
Spooner Press, NY
Copyright © 2008
ISBN 978-1-60458-121-8
Printed in the United States by Lightning Source
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Table of Contents
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Preface
“ If you make up your mind about a contentious issue without having heard all sides, you will
be wrong at least half the time ." 1
Every person is a product of the times he lives in. We all believe that our
values are objective and moral, but that cannot be true because every generation
believes that, yet they have vastly conflicting values. Only a few hundred years ago
our ancestors found nothing objectionable about owning and selling other people,
and some millenniums prior to that the main course at dinner might be a member of
a neighboring tribe. Had we lived then, there is little doubt we would not have
objected. Several hundred years from now a future generation is likely to consider
our values to be as ignorant and barbaric as we consider those of our predecessors.
I mention this to encourage the reader to jettison, or at least rein in, the
opinions, attitudes, and beliefs that he has picked up during his life, because in this
book many of them will be disputed. Step out of your times, as though you had just
arrived on this planet, and weigh the evidence and reasoning presented. It is nearly
impossible to arrive at the truth by listening to only one side of the story, and you are
about to hear another side.
Much of what people are told in schools and in the media today just isn’t so.
There are knowledgeable people who know it isn’t so, but they dare not say
anything. The rest of us live in this sea of misinformation. Since almost everyone
believes the prevailing misinformation, we assume it must be true. So we act on it,
making important decisions about our lives, decisions that all too often are
disastrous.
Now, in my waning years, I can see no contribution I could make to the next
generation more important than to challenge what I believe to be at least some of
these erroneous beliefs. To encourage the dissemination of this book, it is being
published without royalties and may be copied, with attribution, without liability to
the author. I hope to make it available on the internet without charge, as I have done
with my other books.
Very little is held back in this book. 2 A n effort was made to avoid unnecessary
insensitivity, but shocking facts, even facts that some will find offensive, are
displayed right out in the open where they cannot be missed. I have tried to be as
accurate as possible, though I would be amazed if there were no mistakes, as so
much ground is covered and speculation was required to fill in gaps in the evidence.
Technical language is avoided where possible and explained where used. Large
amounts of additional material could have been included, but after working on this
almost full time for about four years, I’ve decided it’s time to call it quits.
FOOTNOTES
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1. (1) Whenever there is a conflict, there are (at least) two versions. (2) Each side will
promote its version and suppress the other versions. (3) The version of the winning side will
become the establishment version that most people will accept. (4) If you knew the other
versions, in a significant number of cases you would not accept the version of the winning
side. (5) Therefore, in order to avoid promoting versions that are against your own interests,
you should examine all versions of a conflict before deciding which version to accept.
2. Some information that is highly controversial, but off-subject or difficult to verify, even if
it is probably true, was omitted.
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