The First Human Family

63:1.1In many re­spects, An­don and Fonta were the most re­mark­able pair of hu­man be­ings that have ever lived on the face of the earth. This won­der­ful pair, the ac­tual par­ents of all man­kind, were in ev­ery way su­pe­rior to many of their im­me­di­ate de­scen­dants, and they were rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent from all of their an­ces­tors, both im­me­di­ate and re­mote.

63:1.2The par­ents of this first hu­man cou­ple were ap­par­ently lit­tle dif­fer­ent from the av­er­age of their tribe, though they were among its more in­tel­li­gent mem­bers, that group which first learned to throw stones and to use clubs in fight­ing. They also made use of sharp spicules of stone, flint, and bone.

63:1.3While still liv­ing with his par­ents, An­don had fas­tened a sharp piece of flint on the end of a club, us­ing an­i­mal ten­dons for this pur­pose, and on no less than a dozen oc­ca­sions he made good use of such a weapon in sav­ing both his own life and that of his equally ad­ven­tur­ous and in­quis­i­tive sis­ter, who un­fail­ingly ac­com­pa­nied him on all of his tours of ex­plo­ration.

63:1.4The de­ci­sion of An­don and Fonta to flee from the Pri­mates tribes im­plies a qual­ity of mind far above the baser in­tel­li­gence which char­ac­ter­ized so many of their later de­scen­dants who stooped to mate with their re­tarded cousins of the simian tribes. But their vague feel­ing of be­ing some­thing more than mere an­i­mals was due to the pos­ses­sion of per­son­al­ity and was aug­mented by the in­dwelling pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers.