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257:. Later, Nawputta manages to shoot a live specimen, a primitive armed with a wooden club, which he proceeds to skin and dissect in the interest of science. Discovered by other humans, he and Chujee hastily retreat as they rouse the countryside with signal drums and the whole tribe hunts them with spears. The 273:
On Nguchoy's return, they surprise the scout, who confesses. They thereupon confiscate his canoe and depart down river, leaving him alone to face the vengeance of the approaching humans. Nawputta plans to return to South America before the local colonists rediscover and despoil the forest, hoping to
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into the same area, intending they meet their own deaths at the hands of the angered humans, leaving him sole, undisputed claim to the valuable timber. In this light, it also occurs to them that the death of Nguchoy's partner came at a most convenient time for him. They locate the grave of Jawga and
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have noted the environmentalist subtext of the story, noting that it suggests "that our fall came to pass not through the operation of some iron law of growth and decay, but rather as the result of a multiplicity of human failings, not the least of which was abuse of the environment. ... But for de
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Nawputta and Chujee rendezvous back at Nguchoy's camp, finding him absent. Ruminating on previous suspicions, they reason the timber scout encountered the humans first and stirred them up by murdering the man whose remains they had initially found. He then directed his fellow
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area of North America's Eastern Forest. Their goal is to catalogue new species and investigate the scant, ruinous remains of human civilization. They encounter Nguchoy tsu Chaw, a timber scout for the local
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In the far future (perhaps five to ten million years from now), humans and much of the world's fauna have gone extinct, and new creatures have evolved from the remaining species to take their places.
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It is perhaps the earliest work of fiction dealing with the afterwards popular theme of humanity being replaced by other intelligent primates in the future, later epitomized by
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In the pine forest the scientists happen upon fresh bones that Nawputta excitedly identifies as human, previously only known from fossils. They appear to have been shot by
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Camp, mankind was by no means inevitably doomed. There was an obvious way forward, and that was for us to embrace nature, and not to rebel against it."
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drive the tribe off with gunfire and escape a subsequent ambush. They outdistance pursuit, but the humans are still on their trail.
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The plot feature of other primates taking the place of an extinct humanity in the far future is also explored in de Camp's novel
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colony. He is alone; his own partner, Jawga tsu Shrra, was recently killed by a
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The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence.
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from South America, zoologist Nawputta and his guide Chujee, an amateur
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have developed to a fairly high level their own technology, including
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for February 1939. It first appeared in book form in the anthology
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Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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and future evolution. It was first published in the magazine
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Los Angeles, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1989, pages 291-292.
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have the human habitat set aside as a preserve for these
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Index

Short story
L. Sprague de Camp

Charles Schneeman
Astounding Science-Fiction
Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
L. Sprague de Camp
human extinction
Astounding Science-Fiction
A Treasury of Science Fiction
Gates to Tomorrow
The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1
Tor Books
Danish
Swedish
Italian
Pierre Boulle
Planet of the Apes
capuchin monkeys
agoutis
tapirs
elephants
aeronautical balloons
naturalist
Pittsburgh
rattlesnake
living fossils
A Treasury of Science Fiction
Alexei
Cory Panshin

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