Dawn mammals
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Also: dawn-mammal.
A little more than one million years ago the Mesopotamian dawn mammals, the direct descendants of the North American lemur type of placental mammal, suddenly appeared. 61:6.1 62:2.1
they developed an extraordinary fear which led to those wise precautionary measures that so enormously contributed to survival 62:2.4
they gave rise to mid-mammals after 70 generations 61:6.1 62:3.1
When the numbers of this new and superior group grew great, war, relentless war, broke out; and when the terrible struggle was over, not a single individual of the pre-existent and ancestral race of dawn mammals remained alive. 62:3.4
The immediate lemurlike mother of the dawn-mammal species escaped death no less than five times by mere hairbreadth margins before she gave birth to the father of the new and higher mammalian order. 62:3.9
These small animals walked mostly on their hind legs, and they possessed large brains in proportion to their size and in comparison with the brains of other animals. 61:6.1
They experienced many of the emotions and shared numerous instincts which later characterized primitive man 62:2.3
They were, indeed, highly gregarious but nevertheless exceedingly pugnacious when in any way disturbed 62:2.5
Bible parallels
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- Early man 61:6.1 — Gn 1:26-27; Gn 2:7.
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