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Vagaries of thought

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A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness.

By Nicholas Humphrey. Chatto and Windus/Simon and Schuster: 1992. Pp. 238. á£16.99, $22.00. The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness. By Israel Rosenfield. Knopf/Picador: 1992. Pp. 157. $20, á£14.99.

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