Magazine article/essay about the encounter of Homo Sapiens with the Neanderthals, switching about mid-way to tell two episodes from their age, showing the latter as primitive brutes deserving extinction from the hands of our ancestors.
Published in The Storyteller April 1921.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| January 1926 | The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | Tauchnitz | Collection | |6 | |
| 1927 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 |
| 1927 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 |
| September 1927 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 |
| October 1927 | The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 | |
| 1929 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Doubleday, Doran | Collection | |
| 1929 | The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | The Literary Guild | Collection | ||
| 1930 |
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Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis | Zsolnay | Collection | |16 |
| 1934 | The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and The Dream | Odhams Press | Omnibus | 491 | |
| 1937 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Doubleday, Doran | Collection | 595 |
| 1938 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Garden City Publishing Co. | Collection | 595 |
| 1938 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Doubleday, Doran | Collection | 595 |
| 1948 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 |
| 1957 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 675 |
| September 1958 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1960 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | |
| 1962 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1964 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1965 | The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | ||
| September 1966 |
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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 607 |
| 1968 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1973 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1974 |
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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 607 |
| August 1975 |
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The Ancient Mysteries Reader | Doubleday | Anthology | 38 |
| 1976 |
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The Ancient Mysteries Reader | Gollancz | Anthology | 38 |
| 1977 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 |
| 1978 |
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The Ancient Mysteries Reader Book 1 | Sphere | Anthology | 56 |
| 1979 | Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 285 | |
| September 1980 |
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Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis | Zsolnay | Collection | 209 |
| 1981 |
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Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 285 |
| October 1982 |
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Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis | Ullstein | Collection | 209 |
| October 1983 |
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Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science | Crown Publishers | Anthology | 237 |
| 1984 |
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Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science | Harrap | Anthology | 237 |
| 1987 | The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | St. Martin's Press | Collection | 607 | |
| 1988 | Selected Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 285 | |
| 1996 |
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Meistererzählungen | Diogenes | Collection | 170 |
| August 1998 |
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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | J. M. Dent | Collection | 684 |
| April 2011 |
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Complete Short Story Omnibus | Gollancz | Collection | 743 |
| January 2017 |
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The Crystal Egg and Other Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 215 |
| 2021 |
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Apeman! | Sam Teddy Publishing | Omnibus | 136 |