Jeff Wells was appointed to be in charge of depositing the funds after several other members were delegated to check out several financial institutions for the best possible rate. The following article, contributed by Dotty Brilmyer, was written by Betty McCollister and published in the Iowa City Press Citation on April 25, 1997. It has been printed here by the permission of the author. Actually, life is a continuum. It began about 4 billions years ago and has continued ever since.
Nature is profligate.
All of a woman's 400-plus eggs and of a man's billions of sperm are alive until they are expelled. At conception, the fertilized egg becomes a zygote. It now contains the blueprints for a particular human being to come. Such intraspecific killing is rare among other animals, however. Our species evolved within the great class Mammalia, which appeared about 200 million years ago, although it remained inconspicuous and nocturnal until the dinosaur extinction 65 Million years ago opened previously unavailable ecological niches.