|
|
This book will try to explain how we have evolved from ape-like creatures into a race that has the intelligence and skills to perform heart transplants, convert sand into computers, communicate via satellites and put a man on the moon.
Why do human beings possess intelligence so superior to that of their closest relatives, especially when it is known that they share 98.4 per cent of their genetic make-up with the African chimpanzee?
Many theories of evolution centre on the idea that it is a struggle for survival that forces the development of early life forms into complex beings. But this fails to explain the evolution of functions of the human brain, which seem unconnected with survival. These functions include understanding irony, creating complex mathematical formulae, writing poetry or even designing striped toothpaste.
I find it difficult to accept our intelligence is purely the result of the slow process of evolution. After all, it took around two million years for our earliest ancestors to appear. But in just a hundred years we have seen the average IQ, height and longevity of life of our race increase. And in the past 30 years, I have witnessed phenomenal developments in the computer and communication industry in which I have worked all my life.
It seems to me that at some point along our evolutionary path we may have had some help, which enabled us to make our outstanding achievements.
My theory is that the rapid evolution of our intelligence is due to the arrival on Earth of a highly intelligent extra-terrestrial being, or race of beings - which I will call the Alien Visitor throughout this book - that bred with, or somehow planted its genetic material and educated our Homo sapiens ancestors.
I believe the arrival of the Alien Visitor advanced our evolution by millions of years. Without this, we could still be slowly travelling along the evolutionary timeline, developing our intelligence as we struggle to survive. Our skills today would probably be similar to those our ancestors held in the Dark Ages. Or worse, we could be extinct along with many other species of ape.
I want to explore the idea that we all possess this extra-terrestrial intelligence, which we inherited from the Alien Visitor.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Numerous links associated with this book can be found on various search engines including: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
