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gibbons

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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

killed Andon and Fonta’s parents 2 paragraphs

62:5.10Shortly be­fore their de­par­ture from the home forests they lost their mother in a gib­bon raid. While she did not pos­sess their in­tel­li­gence, she did have a wor­thy mam­malian af­fec­tion of a high or­der for her off­spring, and she fear­lessly gave her life in the at­tempt to save the won­der­ful pair. Nor was her sac­ri­fice in vain, for she held off the en­emy un­til the fa­ther ar­rived with re­in­force­ments and put the in­vaders to rout.

62:5.11Soon af­ter this young cou­ple for­sook their as­so­ciates to found the hu­man race, their Pri­mates fa­ther be­came dis­con­so­late—he was heart­bro­ken. He re­fused to eat, even when food was brought to him by his other chil­dren. His bril­liant off­spring hav­ing been lost, life did not seem worth liv­ing among his or­di­nary fel­lows; so he wan­dered off into the for­est, was set upon by hos­tile gib­bons and beaten to death.

not human ancestors 1 paragraph

62:1.1The early lemurs con­cerned in the an­ces­try of the hu­man species were not di­rectly re­lated to the pre-ex­is­tent tribes of gib­bons and apes then liv­ing in Eura­sia and north­ern Africa, whose progeny have sur­vived to the pres­ent time. Nei­ther were they the off­spring of the mod­ern type of lemur, though spring­ing from an an­ces­tor com­mon to both but long since ex­tinct.