Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
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University of Georgia Press, 2016.
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Priscilla Long., & Priscilla Long|AUTHOR. (2016). Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? . University of Georgia Press.

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Priscilla Long and Priscilla Long|AUTHOR. Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? University of Georgia Press, 2016.

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Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical twin on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; the turmoil, social change, and music of the 1960s; the suicide of a sister; and a life in art in the Pacific Northwest. Here, memoir extends the threads of the writer's individual and very personal life to science, to history, and to ancestors, both literary and genetic, back to the Neanderthals. 
 
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