The Dawn Races of Early Man

62:4.1Go­ing back to the birth of the su­pe­rior twins, one male and one fe­male, to the two lead­ing mem­bers of the mid-mam­mal tribe: These an­i­mal ba­bies were of an un­usual or­der; they had still less hair on their bod­ies than their par­ents and, when very young, in­sisted on walk­ing up­right. Their an­ces­tors had al­ways learned to walk on their hind legs, but these Pri­mates twins stood erect from the be­gin­ning. They at­tained a height of over five feet, and their heads grew larger in com­par­i­son with oth­ers among the tribe. While early learn­ing to com­mu­ni­cate with each other by means of signs and sounds, they were never able to make their peo­ple un­der­stand these new sym­bols.

62:4.2When about four­teen years of age, they fled from the tribe, go­ing west to raise their fam­ily and es­tab­lish the new species of Pri­mates. And these new crea­tures are very prop­erly de­nom­i­nated Pri­mates since they were the di­rect and im­me­di­ate an­i­mal an­ces­tors of the hu­man fam­ily it­self.

62:4.3Thus it was that the Pri­mates came to oc­cupy a re­gion on the west coast of the Mes­o­po­ta­mian penin­sula as it then pro­jected into the south­ern sea, while the less in­tel­li­gent and closely re­lated tribes lived around the penin­sula point and up the east­ern shore line.

62:4.4The Pri­mates were more hu­man and less an­i­mal than their mid-mam­mal pre­de­ces­sors. The skele­tal pro­por­tions of this new species were very sim­i­lar to those of the prim­i­tive hu­man races. The hu­man type of hand and foot had fully de­vel­oped, and these crea­tures could walk and even run as well as any of their later-day hu­man de­scen­dants. They largely aban­doned tree life, though con­tin­u­ing to re­sort to the tree­tops as a safety mea­sure at night, for like their ear­lier an­ces­tors, they were greatly sub­ject to fear. The in­creased use of their hands did much to de­velop in­her­ent brain power, but they did not yet pos­sess minds that could re­ally be called hu­man.

62:4.5Al­though in emo­tional na­ture the Pri­mates dif­fered lit­tle from their fore­bears, they ex­hib­ited more of a hu­man trend in all of their propen­si­ties. They were, in­deed, splen­did and su­pe­rior an­i­mals, reach­ing ma­tu­rity at about ten years of age and hav­ing a nat­u­ral life span of about forty years. That is, they might have lived that long had they died nat­u­ral deaths, but in those early days very few an­i­mals ever died a nat­u­ral death; the strug­gle for ex­is­tence was al­to­gether too in­tense.

62:4.6And now, af­ter al­most nine hun­dred gen­er­a­tions of de­vel­op­ment, cov­er­ing about twenty-one thou­sand years from the ori­gin of the dawn mam­mals, the Pri­mates sud­denly gave birth to two re­mark­able crea­tures, the first true hu­man be­ings.

62:4.7Thus it was that the dawn mam­mals, spring­ing from the North Amer­i­can lemur type, gave ori­gin to the mid-mam­mals, and these mid-mam­mals in turn pro­duced the su­pe­rior Pri­mates, who be­came the im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors of the prim­i­tive hu­man race. The Pri­mates tribes were the last vi­tal link in the evo­lu­tion of man, but in less than five thou­sand years not a sin­gle in­di­vid­ual of these ex­traor­di­nary tribes was left.