I would say that the descendants of Adam and Eve were given an eternal. Aristotle and Thomas Aquinus believed that the soul is something that makes a being live; therefore, everything living has a soul. Thomas believed in the immortality of the human soul only; however, I believe that if we love a cat or dog to live that we had in this life, he could for our sake give that animal eternal life. A hominid could live for ever if God wished; however, I doubt that would happen.
Charles Edward Miller de Wynns