An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

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What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory:
H.G. Wells’
Pierre Boulle’s
Jules Verne’s
Edgar Rice Burroughs’
the struggle for legitimacy in Wells’ “The Grisly Folk,” the Tasmanian analogue in Lester Del Rey’s “The Day Is Done,” William Golding’s
“the promise of humanity” in Arthur C. Clarke’s
the theme of “a god among the heathen” in Wells’ “The Lord of the Dynamos” and other works, Jean Auel’s
J.H. Rosny-Aine’s
and Wells’
A final chapter considers the paleoanthropologist as literary critic.