Almost every person on Earth asked the question: “How did we appear on this planet? Who are we and where are we from? " The origin of not only man himself, but also our planet is a centuries-old mystery. By the way, no one was able to completely remove all the veils from these secrets, because neither philosophers nor scientists were able to prove at least one theory of the origin of people, not only 100, but even 80 percent. In this regard, new hypotheses continue to be manifested, one of which says that we appeared on Earth absolutely spontaneously, so to speak, "by chance." Is it really?
Generally accepted theories of our emergence
Let's first recall the generally accepted theories. The first of them is absolutely scientific, formulated several centuries ago by the English scientist Charles Darwin. It is also known as the theory of evolution. According to her, Homo sapiens descended from the great apes. The main changes in the species occurred as a result of a long process - natural selection.
Now we hardly believe that we descended from ordinary monkeys, which can often be seen in zoos. In addition, this theory has repeatedly yielded to doubt and refutation. The fact is that scientists have not been able to explain how, as a result of the mutation of species on Earth, such complex life forms as humans were formed.
The second version is considered religious or theological (theological). Everything here seems to be simple - God created people. As the Book of Books, that is, the Bible, says, the first people (Adam and Eve) were made of clay by the hands of the Great Creator. Representatives of many religious denominations support it, even with some variations. But none of them requires proof, because their main argument is faith.
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Space or alien theory also has a right to exist. According to her, we are all aliens or the fruit of the creation of representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. This hypothesis is considered exotic, but recently, in light of the frequent appearance of "UFO" in different parts of our planet, scientists are turning to it more and more often.
There are several more or less plausible theories. One of them is associated with a spatial anomaly. According to her, such a form of life as a person was formed thanks to the so-called "humanoid triad", consisting of aura, matter and energy. The second hypothesis generally says that we descended from small tree animals. We will not consider the rest of the ideas, but return to the one that scientists came up with recently.
Random theory
Its author is Andrew Barr, a researcher at the US George Washington University. This theory is not related to climatic metamorphosis and evolution. The scientist conducted computer simulations and found factors that were not previously taken into account by other researchers. He says that the bursts of the appearance of different types of living things on Earth were spontaneous.
Humanity is known to have appeared two to three million years ago. Africa is traditionally considered the place where life began. Then, several different and differing species of living beings appeared on its expanses. Due to changes in the climatic situation, the eastern part of the mainland was transformed into savannah. Precipitation in this area began to fall less frequently and with a lower concentration. Therefore, the wooded area has ceased to be such. The prototypes of people had to get off the crowns and start crawling on the ground, and later learn to walk upright.
To find confirmation of his theory, the American researcher Barr created a "zero model", in which there is no connection between the given variables, therefore, "unnecessary" factors cannot influence the experimental results. In this case, they were the climatic constancy of the eastern part of Africa and the rate of new species formation. Therefore, he introduced data on the evolution of the continent in the last millions of years and simulated the emergence of new species in a constant climate.
In the end, the results were the same both with and without a change in nature. That is, the formation of species was accidental, despite the constancy of the climate. This gave the researcher the opportunity to conclude that the appearance of man was spontaneous, and the formation of species did not depend on natural conditions, but on extraordinary reasons previously unknown to official science. Such a reason could be the transformation of the ecosystem. This means that biocenoses, that is, systems of living organisms, from which some species could disappear (die out), changed on Earth.
The results obtained by Barr have led anthropologists to a standstill. They had a dilemma that if the climate did not influence the appearance of the species Homo sapiens, then why did it appear on the planet several million years after the primates settled on the Earth? Then the question involuntarily arises, did the monkeys really wait for them to start turning into a man?
By the way, earlier studies proved that Australia was inhabited by people a very, very long time ago, even 65 thousand years ago, and this is much earlier than it was believed before (47 thousand years ago). The discovery of cavemen on the fifth continent forced us to reconsider the entire history of the continent. Although scientists have no doubt that the aborigines of Australia were one of the most ancient peoples to emerge on Earth and one of the oldest continuously existing cultures in the world, the debate of the luminaries of science about their settlement does not end for decades.
Natalie Lee
