ABSTRACT
In the Fall of 1961 I began my freshman year at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. There I met Lance Christie, the rst person I had ever encountered who seemed to be the same species as I. We were both avid science ction readers, and had been particularly taken by the recurrent theme of the emergence of a new stage in human evolution (“Homo Novus”). We thought of ourselves as the new Cro-Magnons in a world of Neanderthals.
