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London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

"Do Adama" (angl. Before Adam) — povest' amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Vpervye opublikovana v zhurnale Everybody's Magazine v techenie 1906—1907 godov. Sjuzhet povesti osnovan na sushhestvovavshem v to vremja predstavlenii ob jevoljucii cheloveka. Al'ter-jego glavnogo geroja — podrostok plemeni peshhernyh ljudej. V proizvedenii takzhe prisutstvujut bolee razvitoe plemja ljudej ognja i menee razvitoe plemja drevesnyh ljudej, sablezubye koshki i Krasnoglazyj — zhestokij «atavizm», terrorizirujushhij plemja geroja.

Years before the outbreak, an unexplained illness in the Congo that mimicked different hemorrhagic fevers brought scientists from the CDC to the jungle. Rebels attacked and destroyed all of the data and blood samples before their research was completed. Days before the outbreak, everything seemed normal. The public had no idea that terrorist forces planned to unleash a literal hell upon the earth. The US and British intelligence community knew, and sent a covert team to North Korea to try to stop the extinction event before it began.