- A U.S. ecologist says conditions such as bad backs and sunburn suggest humans did not evolve alongside other life on Earth
- In a new book, Dr Ellis Silver says aliens put humans our planet as recently as tens of thousands of years ago
- He suggests the Earth might be a prison planet, since humans seem to be a naturally violent species and are here until we learn to behave ourselves
Dr Ellis Silver points to a number of physiological features to make his case for why humans did not evolve alongside other life on Earth, in his new book.
They range from humans suffering from bad backs - which he suggests is because we evolved in a world with lower gravity - to getting too easily sunburned and having difficulty giving birth.
Dr Ellis says that while the planet meets humans' needs for the most part, it does not perhaps serve the species' interests as well as the aliens who dropped us off imagined.
In his book, HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH: A SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE, the ecologist writes the human race has defects that mark it of being 'not of this world'.
'Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth's environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more,' he told Yahoo.
Dr Ellis says that humans might suffer from bad backs because they evolved on a world with lower gravity.
He also says that it is strange that babies' heads are so large and make it difficult for women to give birth, which can result in fatalities of the mother and infant.
No other native species on this planet has this problem, he says.
He also believes humans are not designed to be as exposed to the sun as they are on Earth, as they cannot sunbathe for more than a week or two - unlike a lizard - and cannot be exposed to the sun every day without problems.
Dr Ellis also claims humans are always ill and this might be because our body clocks have evolved to expects a 25 hour day, as proven by sleep researchers.
'This is not a modern condition; the same factors can be traced all the way back through mankind's history on Earth,' he says.
He suggests that Neanderthals such as homo erectus were crossbred with another species, perhaps from Alpha Centauri, which is the closest star system to our solar system, some 4.37 light years away from the sun.
Dr Ellis said many people feel that they don't belong and feel at home on Earth.
'This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species.'
'One reason for this ... is that the Earth might be a prison planet, since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we're here until we learn to behave ourselves,' he said.
Dr Ellis said the book is intended to create debate, instead of being a scientific study and hopes it will lead to people getting in touch with him with further suggestions of 'evidence'.
While other scientists have said some bacteria arrived on Earth from space, Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA, said that to jump to the conclusion that it is alien life is 'a big jump'.
Professor Wainwright from the University of Sheffield plans to investigate further, and believes that life is constantly arriving from space that did not originate on Earth.
Dr Ellis says that while his idea is an extreme evolution of that idea, it is intended to be thought-provoking and he claims to have had a largely positive response to it.
He is interested in whether humans came to Earth separately, perhaps by arriving on meteors and comets, before evolving into the species we know today.
'My thesis proposes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago,' he says.
THE 'EVIDENCE' TO SUGGEST HUMANS CAME FROM SPACE SO FAR
- Bad backs suggest humans evolved in a world with lower gravity
- Sunburn hints humans were not designed to be exposed constantly to the sun
- The size of babies' heads present a problem for women when giving birth - difficulty not shared by other species on the planet
- Humans are always ill, perhaps beacuse their body clocks have evolved to expect a 25 hour day - unlike Earth's
- People just feel like they are not at home on our planet
Reader Comments
Well that sure makes a cozy home for those types then doesn't it???
Mars has a length of day of 24.55 hours, making it a midpoint between Earth's 23.93 hours and the suggested 25 hours ancestry.
Prison Planet Earth. Wonder if there were other species before us who managed to escape?
I believe we came from different planets, if you look at the different races on earth, there are only three really and everything else is a mixture of same, most likely transported here to 'chill out' like pommies send to Australia in times gone by.
In breeding of animals(of which we are, one kind) I have observed over the years, you get good, bad and in between to make up a whole.
also believe systems are similar all over the globe with local differences, it is like a blue print in how to survive on earth, it seems to take a certain amount of time before the human race gets to cocky and a natural cycle takes it down to the beginning, just a thought
"The planet Earth is the lunatic asylum of the universe - the problem is, the inmates are in charge . . ." Bertrand Russell (I think)
Sunburn is heavily aggravated by poor nutrition. Well established link. And given that Western countries have the lowest real nutrition and are mainly populated by white folk it's little wonder there's a prevalence of sunburn. There's heaps of info on Google.
Humans do not have a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, we've been offered processed foods designed specifically to chemically and neuro chemically addict us. Google food designed to addict. Yup, i'll take the cocaine over white flour anytime.
Bad backs - FFS this person is a complete raving lunatic. We're the tallest and heaviest of our genetic family by far and the only ones getting around with a straight spine. Considering over 99.5% of our DNA is identical with apes, monkeys, chimpanzees, etc all of whom get around with curved spines it's a wonder our backs aren't worse. Our DNA is compatible with curved backs. Combine that with the epidemic of obesity putting strain on our backs combined with poor posture sitting for hours at the office or watching TV at home and not getting enough exercise is it any wonder we experience problems. People with strong back muscles don't experience problems unless they have an injury. Low gravity my big, fat, white, hairy arse.
Babies with big heads - as humans started eating more meat protein in their diets our brains started increasing in size (not intelligence). Same meat diet didn't increase the size of the female reproductive anatomy.
We're violent - well DUH. It's a selective trait. I guess the humans with violent, warlike, aggressive traits tend to go to war whenever they get the urge and kill the peaceful and loving and beautiful ones amongst us and breed lots of aggressive little copies of themselves. No shit Sherlock.
And i guess the aliens who supposedly dropped us off here a few tens of thousands of years ago also made a huge effort to salt our rock strata with millions of years of fossil evidence of our genetic lineage just to screw with our oversized heads. Gotta love aliens with a sense of humour.
This person is a drop dead raving lunatic of the highest order but i will concede a single point. This place feels very very far from home for me - felt that strongly since the age of about 5
Our sun may be a magnetar whose rapid energy loss is behind the past effects we no longer experience, and have been responsible for the myths of a 'smarter us,'
is that our sun is a magnetar whose past constant solar emissions were responsible for a 'water veil' and low gravity. These emissions are now seen only ephemerally during a delayed solar magnetic reversal. There were no aliens, only a smarter us.