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THE PLANET OF THE FIRST MAKERS- HOW EARTH'S FIRST THINKERS DOMINATED- AND DESTROYED THEIR WORLD AND THEMSELVES
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.

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THE PLANET OF THE FIRST MAKERS- HOW EARTH'S FIRST THINKERS DOMINATED- AND DESTROYED THEIR WORLD AND THEMSELVES
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.