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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.