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According to The Urantia Book (often referred to as the fifth epochal revelation), the Andonites are the descendants of Andon and Fonta, the first two human beings on Urantia (Earth). Andon and Fonta were the original mutant twins born to animal parents nearly one million years ago, marking the appearance of true humans with will, personality, and the capacity for spiritual choice.The Andonites represent the first human race—the aboriginal, pre-Sangik (pre-colored races) stock from which the six evolutionary colored races (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo) later differentiated around 500,000 years ago in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan.Key characteristics and details from the revelation include:

• They originated in Asia, specifically a southern peninsula of the continent, and spread northward into rugged, cold environments, avoiding forests and inferior simian relatives.
• Physically, primitive Andonites had black eyes, a swarthy complexion (a cross between yellow and red tones), and resembled modern Eskimos more closely than any other living group in general appearance and skin pigmentation (due to original Andonic melanin).
• They were hardy, inventive, clannish, and progressive, developing early tools, fire use, animal-skin clothing, and a sense of kinship. They exhibited early religious impulses amid harsh northern conditions.
• Over time, pure Andonites were pushed to peripheral regions (e.g., extreme northern Europe, Iceland, Greenland, northeastern North America, and Siberia). Some groups mixed with later arrivals like the Andites (descendants of Adamites and Nodites).
• Descendants persist today in groups like the Eskimos/Inuit, who retain some Andonic traits such as adherence to customs resembling an early "golden rule" teaching.
• Related groups include the Amadonites (loyal Andonites who sided with Van and Amadon during the Lucifer rebellion, more a cultural/religious than purely racial term) and various Andonite remnants in Europe and Asia (e.g., broad-headed mountain peoples or Danubian farmers).

The Andonites are foundational in the book's cosmology: all subsequent human racial evolution stems from this Andonic stock, with later improvements from the Planetary Prince's staff, Adam and Eve's violet race, and mixtures producing the Andites (a superior blend that spread civilization widely).For direct references, see Papers 63 ("The First Human Family"), 64 ("The Evolutionary Races of Color"), and scattered mentions in Papers 79–80 on migrations and expansions.