The National SAFEKIDS Campaign recommends that no child under the age of 12 be left at home alone. However, consider a child's age and maturity level. For example, if a child is extremely impulsive, it might be best to wait until he or she is older than 12.
Did people and dinosaurs live at the same time? No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.
In other words, evolution and the second law of thermodynamics can live together in harmony. Keep Reading Below One of the most persistent myths, however, concerns the relationship of humans to great apes, a group of primates that includes the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzee. Someone who believes the myth will say, If evolution exists, then humans must be descended directly from apes. Apes must have changed, step by step, into humans. This same person will often follow up with this observation: If apes 'turned into' humans, then apes should no longer exist.