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THE GECKO
The Geckos to the left can be found on the Earth today. They have changed very little in the Last 195 million years. There are small creatures in the Oceans today that can move by hands and feet similar to the line drawings of Geckos to the left. One of these Geckos has a almost fish tail for moving on land.These four Geckos pictured to the left are smaller than the Pika pictured below. |
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Small Tail Gecko
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Small Tail Gecko
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THE PIKA Variations of this Pika are living today around the world. The evolution of the Gecko over 195 Million years is plenty of time to make the transition from the Gecko upper left with a small tail to the Pika holding some flowers in his mouth for his haystack. The Pika is about the size of a tennis ball. The fingers and toes along with the armes and legs are very much like our own. |
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Short Flat Tail Gecko
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Fish Tail Like Gecko
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 Pika surveying his domain |
 Pika .. gathering food for winter |
Pika gathering food for his hay stack. |
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 Top Hadrocodium wui ......Fish Scarcopterygii |
  Hadrocodium wui |
SPECULATION.... The artist must use his powers of observation to enhance his creations. For sixty five years I have been dedicated to my profession. I closely observed all of the elements that surround the inspiration in my paintings. When I see the alligator in its environment of water and land, its movements fortify the image I have of our earliest ancestor. This early ancestor made the transition from the early fish ancestor Scarcopterygii to the land mammal Hadrocodium wui. The more intelligent alligator is basically the same only much larger in size. The ancestor of the alligator of some 450 million years ago could have been very small. The movement of its arms and legs, duplicate the movement of our arms and legs. When the alligator runs along the ground it elevates its entire body, and moves with, grace considering its larger size and weight. The long developed fingers and toes, and tail could easily evolved into the mammal Hadrocodium wui some 195 million years ago. The long snout of the alligator and the placement of the eyes remind me of this Hadrocodium wui. The Pika, I believe developed and evolved around 100 million years ago, and has not changed to much since then. I can also speculate that 65 million years ago a group of these early almost tailless Pikas were forced into a new, much wetter environment. In this modified environment they could no longer live in their watery home of many rooms in the ground. The new environment meant they had to remember where they stored their 5000 caches of food. The successive generations slowly evolved into the ape of today, the chimpanzee, gorilla and orangatan . | |||
| "Big Bang" | Who knows | ||||
| "Watery World" | Grip | 450 million years ago Scarcopterygii ( early fish mammal ) | |||
| "Larger Life" | Grip | 225 million years ago | |||
| "The Dry Land Mammal" | Grip | 210 million years ago Triassic Period Dinosaurs dominate the landscape | |||
| "Hadrocodium wui" | Grip/1 | 195 million years ago Hadrocodium wui, weight Two grams, nocturnal | |||
| "The Larger Shrew" | Grip/2/1 | 65 million years ago a disaster destroyed the Dinosaurs. Hadrocodium wui and his many various cousins including the tailless Pika survived, and are around today. | |||
| "The Surviving Shrew" | Grip/2/1 | The Pika takes to the trees, earliest primates, Monkeys, Apes and Chimps. | |||
| "A Life in the Trees" | Grip/2/1 | A life in the trees early Primates, Monkey, Apes and Chimps | |||
| "A Life on the Ground" | Grip/3/2/1 | 25 million years ago Rift Valley forces man to adapt to life on the ground, walking upright | |||
| "The Tribal Man" | Grip/3/2/1 | Thirty thousand years ago man explores Europe and beyond | |||
| "Modern Man" | Grip/3/2/1 | Twenty thousand years ago independent Tribes flourish around the world, | |||
| Grip/4/3/2/1 | 2000 Sophisticated new tools, Computers, Communication, Abstract thought | ||||
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