Pre-capitalist Societies

Guy Routh

Chapter 2 in Economics, 1984, pp 4-23 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Of the three thousand million years since the origin of life on earth, hominids, or man-like creatures, have been around for about two million. But of these man-like species, only one remains — homo sapiens: wise man. Two million years, on the galactic scale of time, is a very short period. As a species we are in our early childhood. Fossilised coelecanths are to be found in deposits of 400 million years ago. Even the African ape goes back for 20 million.

Keywords: Penguin Book; Edible Wild Plant; Aptitude Test; Galactic Scale; Feudal Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17348-8_2

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