If your ancestors had to get over the mountains, they had to have the stamina to make the journey. They needed the lung capacity to survive a minimum of oxygen; food to sustain them for their journey; clothes to protect them against the elements; and for most of them, there was no possibility of a round trip ticket.
    Most of all, they had to possess those physical attributes that would make the journey possible.
    Often, the need to get over the mountain range was motivated by hostile peoples or conditions in their home land. Maybe the survival of their particular group depended on finding a new place to live. Perhaps they were being banished because they were different.
    There pigmentation could have been lighter or darker than the norm. They could have been shorter or taller. They could have committed some crime. Regardless of any reason, they had to get over the mountains.
    If they were successful, they got to live on the other side. If you weren't, their remains may still be found in icy graves.
    Regardless, they had to obtain the necessities of life — food and shelter — or they perished.
    If they were successful climbing over the mountains, obtained food and shelter, and survived whatever obstacles existed there, they could have babies.
    That is the heritage of many nations that exist today. Their founding fathers and mothers possessed physical and mental attributes that permitted them to survive a change.
    They owe their existence, not to gods, but to ancesters who could climb mountains. They climbed over those mountains millions of years before any religion existed. Most notable of these groups today are Sherpas in Nepal and the Incas of Peru. They possess those physical attributes that permit them, and their ancestors, to exist.
    Several millions of years ago you never got a chance to make babies if you could not climb the mountains.
    If you trace your roots back thousands and thousands of years ago, are their any physical attributes that distinquish you and your ancestors?
    In future postings we will isolate attributes that contributed to this evolution of the human race.
    Our world contains many different people who owe their existance to ancestors who, millions of years ago, survived and thrived . . . without gods!