San (bush) !Kun Khoi-San (Kalahari, S Africa) — Most direct genetic descendant of earliest man. |
After the egg-laying fish, reptiles and birds had developed, Ël•oh•imꞋ evolved mammals, which gave birth to live offspring instead of eggs.
For example, bunnies are mammals. They don't lay eggs.
Mammals include animals from lions and giraffes to elephants, deer, ibexes, bears, apes, monkeys, chimpanzees orangutans — also Neanderthals and humans.
Some mammals had fur or hair instead of scales or feathers.
Other mammals, though having no gills or scales like fish, remained tied to the sea, and eventually became today's air-breathing porpoises and whales.
Genetic scientists, archeologists and historians are still researching the relationship between Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and •dâmꞋ and Khaw•âhꞋ in Gan EiꞋdën. Until recently, Neanderthals were thought to be extinct. However, now geneticists have found that some human beings have both Homo sapiens AND Neanderthal genes. This means that some Neanderthals intermingled with some Homo sapiens.
Mitochondrial Eve, ca. BCE 125,000 (bradshawfoundation.com) — reconstruction of earliest mitochondrial genetic woman. |
Scientists still aren't certain how the various races differentiated into Caucasians in Europe and Asians in the Orient. They suggest that people are darker where there is more sun and lighter as they've lived nearer the poles where it is colder, they wear heavier clothing and less sun filters through the atmosphere.
See how many types of fish you can think of.
How many Amphibians?
Living reptiles?
Birds?
Mammals?
Finally, what is the only mammal that can fly (without an airplane)?
This was the sixth cosmic ërꞋëv followed by cosmic morning: defining the sixth cosmic yom of our universe.
Optional parental preparation:
Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss: