"A Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, uses a fine irony that calls into question the very foundations of society, being exposed to light the ills of a society in decline, pointing out its horror and its enormous vacuum. ... It is a world in which there are no feelings and no taboos, in which the most obscene words that can come out of a person's mouth are "father" or "mother", because the individuals are obtained from a process of fertilization in- vitro and where people will be governed for life by means of a drug called "soma". A world apparently perfect and ideal for its inhabitants,...

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The Neanderthal were the first humans to live in Ice Age conditions, surviving by hunting the largest and most formidable Pleistocene mammals--the mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, and wild cattle. ... These artists' reconstructions depict the rugged hunting life of the ice-age Europeans of our species [often called Cro-Magnon after an early discovery site in France]. ...

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