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Everything went as planned. They impregnated female apes with modified fertilized egg cell; observed them for a day; then let loose with their respective troop. After two months, they secured the ship, hibernated, and left their fate in God’s hands.
EVOLUTION TO MODERN MAN
A million years later, in the year 1.3 million BC, as scheduled, Femed and Nengut were awaken from hibernation to monitor the evolutionary progress of their genetically modified apes. They left the ship on an airship and flew to the region where they left them eons ago. There, they found four distinct species of apes that stood and walked, the homo erectus. Of the four, only one was distinctly different, the hominids, forerunner to homo sapiens, the modern man. They distinguished themselves from the other three for their hairless face and a noticeable white color that surrounds the iris of their eyes.
Nengut and Femed found the hominids were no different from the apes they came from apart from their ability to stand and use their hands. Their brain size was slightly larger but still acted much like apes. They, however, were a noisy group that used a myriad of sound to express themselves. What was remarkable was, they called each other by name, as Grig, Yaw, Eek, and other simple name sounds. They wandered in groups in the region and when threatened, they would band together and howl, growl in unison as they wildly swung a handheld pole or throw rocks to any threat. Most often, it worked. Otherwise they would scamper speedily for the nearest tree and howl and growl from there. With their free hands, these primitive creatures used sticks or stones as simple tool. They seemed unable to figure out the other things they can do with them. However, with a club to swing and the ability to throw, other apes and some predatory animals were frightened of them.
The hominid’s diet and population worried them. The hominids had evolved to become omnivores and predators. Hunting wild life was a daily routine and ate raw what they caught. They numbered less than what they predicted. The changes were not much, thus, it was too early to draw any conclusion to how these mindless creatures would eventually become. They hibernated again to wake every hundred thousand years thereafter and would adjust it once some form of intelligence was observed.
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