Art and Adaptability argues for a co-evolution of theory of mind and material/art culture. The book covers relevant areas from great ape intelligence, hominin evolution, Stone Age tools, Paleolithic culture and art forms, to neurobiology. We use material and art objects, whether painting or sculpture, to modify our own and other people's thoughts so as to affect behavior. We don't just make judgments about mental states; we create objects about which we make judgments in which mental states are inherent. Moreover, we make judgments about these objects to facilitate how we explore the minds and feelings of others. The argument is that it's not so much art because of theory of mind but art as theory of mind.

STARTING WITH THE ANCIENT HYPERBOREANS, THRU MILLIONS OF YEARS, WE SURVEY THE LIFE AND IDEALS OF PRE-HISTORIC CULTURES, LEADING TO OUR PREPARATION FOR A MYSTICAL RECURRENCE OF THE SATYA YUGA, OR THE NEW GOLDEN AGE, FOSTERED BY MASTER PARADISIANS OF A HIGH HEAVENLY HIERARCHY. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO HYPERBOREAN CULTURE AND THEIR SUN GOD. Seven Eternities ago the Sweat-Born came forth from the First Heaven to inhabit the earth with huge vaporous bodies in the earliest Hyperborean Race nourishing from the air, which in time descended into the frugivorous, required a living water nourishment from juicy fruits. Modern misconceptions as to seeds and nuts which give densest body, drugging with pesticides for Fruit-eater's "High," early historians identification of Hyperboreans and original source of Sun Gods. CHAPTER II: THE ANCIENT EASTERN LEGENDS OF PARADISIAN ORIGINS. Buddhist Concepts of how self- luminous bodies became denser partaking of earth-born fruits of earth, till finally eating rice, men became passionate and evil; Comparison with Bible Genesis when man was cast out of Eden for bread-eating; Pre-Adamite Man that lived in Altai or "Heavenly Mts.," Shambhala, Paradise of Chinese Legends, P'eng lai, Taoist Hygiene School abstains from 5 grains, eats jujubes fruit, or breath, to become Immortals, Lemurians and 7 Root Races, Soma or Juicy Fruit in Hindu and Zend legend, Science on recent origin of grains, and Map. CHAPTER III: THE HEBRAIC ORIGIN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE. Shamash, the Sun God of Babylonian Legend, and part played in Biblic Genesis, the Legend of Moses' birth and Great Flood precisely described in Chaldean Records, Josephus explains Genesis, Adam and Eve, Cain, Seth from nonbiblic sources, Gnostics were Essenes, Ezra writes Mosaic Books. CHAPTER IV: DIETETIC VIOLATIONS THAT GAVE RACIAL TRAITS TO PREHISTORIC PAMIRS, TARIM BASIN, SUMERIA, CHALDEA FROM ATLANTIS. Anthropology and Ethnology, Iridology gives color index to pathology in the eyes and its relation to skin and hair; how skin color is developed by ethnic traits in diet; negroes become white on raw food; clabber as living substance responsible for white race; intestinal purity and alkalinity gives clean skin color; Pamirs described as original Eden; Chinese corroboration about Eden; Sumeria, fish-born Semiramis, and Atlantis. CHAPTER V: THE EGYPTIAN INITIATION INTO ATLANTEAN MYSTERIES, THEIR SACRED HIERATIC LANGUAGE AND TRAITS. Historic Greek descriptions of Atlantis, Early Egyptians abstain from grains and flesh, Moses copies Pork and unclean meat doctrine from Egypt, Excess fat, avocados, etc. hard on liver, Lactobacillus, healing of menstruation and seminal losses, the Mysteries of Egyptian Initiation, Hermes, Atlantian writings. CHAPTER VI: ANCIENT LEGENDARY HISTORY OF THE KRISHNA CULT, AND ARYAN CULTURAL BENEFICIENCE FROM BUDDHA. What Scriptures confirm as to the black man Krishna who creates rivers of blood slaughtering enemies by the hundred thousands, made over 4 women pregnant every night of his life, having 16,108 wives, including female gorilla, and other jungle legends unwittingly espoused by Yoga much like O.T. Bible's gory prophets. Buddha's Doctrine of Compassion for all beings, abstinence from killing and chaste ideals, forsaking worldly desires, Teachings. CHAPTER VIII: THE FIRST PEOPLE, THE LEMURIANS, THE GOBI CIVILIZATION, ANTHROPOGENESIS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND MYSTICAL LEGENDS ABOUT SHAMBHALA. After Eternal or First Land of Hyperborea, Lemuria, sin and taking of life came into being. Seed-eating gave rise to sexualism, and perversions giving bestial forms to human fetus development. Soviet science as to Lemuria, Osborn and Doreal Research about Gobi Civilization, Tibetan Lama's views and Prophecy of Shambhala in Ecuador.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.

This book describes the major events in the history of dinosaurs and surrounding events in the Age of Reptiles. It is written about the world that dinosaurs lived in: environments, climate, bird evolution, origin of mammals, migrating continents, mass extinctions, asteroids and massive volcanic flows. For example, all three major episodes of volcanism are tied directly to major changes in dinosaur origin and evolution. Climates varied from intense heat in a single supercontinent at the beginning to equable climates and densely clothed forests as continents drifted apart. The book is well-illustrated. It includes 65 images taken from fossil specimens located mostly in the major museums of natural history