Evo

By Will Bontrager

The human race is splitting. Again.

During and after the first evolutionary split, 250 to 30 million years ago, some of the people evolved into humans. The rest of the people evolved into apes.

This second split is evidenced by the historically high degree of divisiveness our world is experiencing. The divisiveness is apt to wane and resurface, at various geographical locations. But each time, the total world division is accelerated. More and more people get caught up in it. Some are evolving one way. The others are evolving into another.

At the end of the split, there will again be two species.

Let us return to the original split: Do you know how long it took for you to become the person that you are now?

Over 200 million years!

Evo, the entity, was there.

Early in the book, you'll find this idea: Modern-day humans - you and your family and your friends, the people you know and interact with - did not evolve from apes. But you and apes both have the same remote mother.

Evo, the book, is based on archaeological findings, beginning way back in time and ending on the day you open the book to read it.

Evo will tell you stories about the pre-humans of early days as they evolved through that horrendously huge amount of time - the luck, the correct decisions, the persistence - to end up with the you that you are.

This book is about your heritage.

And, as you'll find out, it is about your destiny.

Evo was there. Evo is here, now - perhaps looking over your shoulder to see what decision you will make after reading this book.

Read about the first laugh.

Read about what happened to the primitive evolving civilization of your ancestors when flint was discovered.

How do the actions of ants remind a child of the hit-or-miss changes of evolution? What would make a long-ago female walk away from another in an ancestral huff?

Find out.

In essence, evolution is change. It has no intelligence and no consciousness. It is not an entity. It is mindless.

Environmental changes, or changes in survival requirements, precipitate "devolution". Aspects of biological entities atrophy when no longer needed or used.

Evo talks about that.

Your ancient biological history is here, beginning before your ancestral family split (with the other side of the split evolving into the apes).

Your future is alluded to.

You see, there is another family split in progress. It is well along. People are actively aligning themselves with one side of the split or the other.

Evo describes a way to make it more likely that you and your descendents will, in fact, end up with the side you prefer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Will Bontrager Software LLC
• Release date: Jun 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201863173

Will Bontrager

Will Bontrager was raised Amish in Iowa and Wisconsin, USA. (There's lots to say about the Amish, but that's outside the scope of this particular profile. If interested, do a web search for "Old Order Amish".) At almost 17 years of age, during year 1970, he left home to go to high school and experience the world outside the Amish community. He never returned to the Amish lifestyle. His primary interests, other than interacting with people, are cooking, writing software, and writing both non-fiction and fiction. He has been cooking pretty much all of his adult life, and is now writing about it. He has been writing software exclusively for websites since 1997. The software website with a lot of his non-fiction articles is Willmaster.com. His non-fiction Amish recipes, fiction stories, tools for writers, and other interesting content are at the WillBontrager.com website. Life is too fun to slow down.

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Copyrights & Publisher

Copyright 2021, 2022 Will Bontrager

Published by Will Bontrager Software LLC (Willmaster.com)

Permission requests can be made at WillBontrager.com via the Contact menu item.

Introduction

The human race is splitting.

During and after the first evolutionary split, 250 to 30 million years ago, some of the people evolved into humans. The rest of the people evolved into apes.

Now, there is another split.

This second split, the one you are experiencing now, has been going on for several thousand years. This book is published just as the fact is becoming readily apparent to a few people.

There is nothing that individual humans or even the entire human species can do to halt the current split — as you will realize when you perceive the depth and unstated meanings of the stories you find here, and then look at the current human civilizations with that new perspective.

Some of us, or our descendants, will evolve into super human. The rest of us, or our descendants, will devolve into subhuman.

If you read this book to find ways to denigrate the work or the stories, then you most likely are a devo, someone who is devolving. (The reason this book is published as fiction is to make your work harder.)

If you read this book with the intent to augment human evolvement in whatever ways you can, then you most likely are an evo, someone who is evolving.

Now, the stories:

Table of Contents

Copyrights & Publisher

Introduction

E V O

The Same Mum

Mindless Evolution

The First Family Split

Food

The First Laugh

An Early Tribal Division

Mirror Image

Another Tiff

End of First Split

After the First Family Split

Flint

A Tribal Division

Conflicts

The Plant Lady

Remembering Without Remembering

Deer

Robbers

A Tale at School

Plausible Answers

Ants

The Second Family Split

Learn About and Contact the Author

Other Books by the Author

E V O

My name is Evo.

Yes, I am fictive. But that doesn't mean I don't know what I am talking about.

Listen up.

The Same Mum

Modern-day humans — you and your family and your friends, the people you know and interact with — did not evolve from apes. Apes are not your ancestors.

However, humans and apes both have the same remote mother.

The same Mum.

Instead of evolving from apes, you evolved with them. For millions of years before that, you were one species.

How do I know?

I was there.

At that remote point, more than 250 million years ago, biological change was very, very slow. It took millions of years, literally, for substantial physical changes to evolve.

Change was so slow it seemed static. For millions and millions of years, people's actions changed very little at all — except when faced with food availability and climate change problems, which occurred frequently in Earth's earlier days, and which sometimes forced the people to change in order to survive.

Yes, I'm talking about your real ancestors.

Without your ancestors and the choices they made, you would not exist.

Are you interested in how your ancestors became as they were?

It was my doing.

Way before your remote mum was born, there was one species I thought had potential.

On a whim, I did a minor tweak of a gene.

That tweak started a process.

The process resulted in your ancestors and in you. Events during their progress are what the stories in this book are about. Some stories will elicit inner smiles. Other stories will bring forth a huh?

Without that ancient tweak, the Earth would not have the sentient beings it now has. You would not be reading this report.

I did the tweak because I had the sudden inane idea that perhaps I could birth an intelligence near equal to mine.

But I hadn't thought it through.

My assumption at that ancient instant was that I could do the tweak and watch it evolve. But it did not work out that way. What I actually ended up doing was get locked into a project that's still going on right now.

My mistake was not realizing you would need a guardian.

For a short time, your evolvement seemed to be coming along fine. But when the process was some hundreds of thousands of years along, in its embryonic infancy and barely out of conception, I noticed some unanticipated changes had been introduced into your evolution.

That was my realization moment.

Evolution, being without plan or thought, intermittently introduced changes that needed correcting — assuming I still wanted to pursue my original purpose. And yes, I did. I wanted to evolve intelligence on a level par with myself.

As the only entity sufficiently intelligent for the guardian role, I was compelled to hang around while you developed.

Well, actually, I was not required to hang around. Nobody made rules I had to follow. I could have abandoned you at any time.

Still, I felt responsible for the outcome of the process I started. Therefore, hang around I did. I was determined to birth real intelligence.

Your development has required my attention for 250 million years. In other words, for 250 million years I prevented myself from getting involved in other projects.

(Frankly, I do not know what other projects I might have gotten involved in. But the restriction was irksome. Try to imagine being irked for 250 million years.)

Do you know how long 250 million years really