Charles Darwin Quote

There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet the stone arrow-heads, brought from the most distant parts of the world and manufactured at the most remote periods, are, as Nilsson has shewn, almost identical; and this fact can only be accounted for by the various races having similar inventive or mental powers.


volume I, chapter VII: "On the Races of Man", pages 232-233 - The Descent of Man (1871)


There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet the stone...

There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet the stone...

There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet the stone...

There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet the stone...