description: John Charles Beecham's pulpy tale of prehistoric fiction comes illustrated to the Kindle.While working for the United States geodetic survey, paleontologist Bruce Dayton meets with a half-mad individual by the name of Eugene Scott, who has lived for years in a hidden cave. The old man has chosen this hermit existence to devote himself to the study of evolution. He claims to know how to send a mind back through the ages—even to the first forms of life—and asks young Dayton’s permission to dispatch him upon that amazing journey. The young man humors the old fellow and, in a fever, falls asleep.In a bewildering daze, Dayton suddenly finds himself living in the trees as an australopithecine named Aka, the Sentinel. So begins his wild journey through humanity’s dawn, inventing tools, battling cave bears, surviving conflicts between titanic sea monsters, and challenging his tribe’s brutish chief. As his adventure continues, Dayton begins to Can he can hold on to his human mind while living the life of an animal, or will his last vestiges of reason and imagination smother under the instincts of the ape?
title: Out of the Miocene
titlecomplete: Out of the Miocene
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