A great gift idea from the Brooklyn Paper that shows the history of life according to Darwin:

Most people don’t want to take the Christ out of Christmas. But one
former Brooklynite wants God to share some space in the toy chest.

To do so, Kate Miller started Charlie’s Playhouse, which sells
evolution toys and fills the black hole between the Noah’s Ark toys and
dinosaurs.

I was looking for toys for my kids,” said Miller, who now lives in
Providence, R.I. “There were dinosaurs, but there was nothing that
showed the history of life on Earth. So I had to start the company.”

Miller’s central product is an 18-foot-long, heavy-duty,
creature-covered timeline (pictured, $49), a journey that spans 12
geologic epochs, six mass extinctions and 600 million years.

Charlie’s Playhouse — the company name is a reference to Darwin —
also sells creature cards ($19) and T-shirts (“Product of Natural
Selection” is the big seller).