Until now, much in the history of the formation of the "Homo" clan remains insufficiently clear. Bold hypotheses sometimes throw us to cat-like monkeys, then, rejecting any anthropological and archaeological finds, they give us Adam and Eve as the only progenitors.
And hundreds of thousands of generations remain rootless wanderers who are denied kinship with us. Meanwhile, even Charles Darwin never claimed that man descended from a monkey, but it was impossible for him, because the great natural scientist remained a deeply religious person until the end of his days. In fact, Charles Darwin only said that man and ape had a common ancestor.
The proposed material is not a scientific hypothesis of the origin and formation of the human race on Earth. This is just an assumption based on the free assumption that our ancestors were "cosmic seedlings", migrants of the Universe, interested in the development of another branch of intelligent and spiritualized life.
"SPACE DROP" ON EARTH
So, about three million years ago, somewhere near the equator, a space landing descended, delivering the first messengers to Earth. This place was not chosen by chance - throughout the entire geological history of the Earth, it was the equatorial belt that was distinguished by the stability of electromagnetic conditions, which should have made it easier for the settlers to adapt to a new environment for them.
Thanks to the work of archaeologists, we know that these settlers had a small - about one and a half meters - growth and a peculiar structure of the skull. Large eye sockets, like in many nocturnal animals, and jaws adapted to chewing both plant and meat food, a wide nasal opening, indicating a well-developed peripheral part of the olfactory center - these are the main anthropological features of the skeletal remains of australopithecines - our true progenitors. The peculiar structures of the cerebral part of their skull consist of the occipital scales and a small, sharply sloping forehead.
The first sign may indicate the powerful development of the occipital muscles - the extensors of the head, which suggest that our ancestors were mainly engaged in gathering and hunting for small animals (beetles, larvae). This circumstance, as well as the presence of purely human limbs, once again confirms the absence of a "tree stage" in the history of our ancestors.
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The second sign - a sloping small forehead - clearly indicates the underdevelopment of the frontal lobes, which are responsible for associative, abstract thinking. At the same time, such a structure of the cerebral skull suggests other anatomical features of the brain that are not characteristic of modern humans. It is known, for example, that in some species of animals with underdevelopment of the frontal lobes, the anterior sections of the cranium are occupied by the well-developed central section of the olfactory tract.
All these signs paint a portrait of our common ancestor - a miniature, light, big-eyed creature, busy collecting food not in climbing bushes and trees. He has excellent eyesight and smell, which provides Australopithecus with excellent orientation in the habitat and survival of the species: it warns in a timely manner about the presence of an enemy, the presence of food or a sexual partner nearby.
We will not touch upon the questions of where and why this "cosmic seedling" came to Earth for now. We only note that over the next one and a half million years, as a result of partial separation, it gave at least two dead-end branches - giant southern and northern Australopithecus. But a relatively small tribe of small (graceful) australopithecines, for an unknown reason, remained at the site of the primary settlement, avoiding leaving into narrow ecological niches. They were the ones who were able to stay on the main path of the formation of the Homo clan. The details of this formation are a different topic.
Here we will dwell on the "preschool" period of our ancestors, their existence until the moment of "reseeding" to Earth from Paradise.
The views of the pre-Jewish tribes of Ancient Asia and the Middle East, including the Babylonian-Sumerian, Aryan, and Canaanite, recorded in the Bible, contain the key to understanding the conditions of the extraterrestrial existence of those who were destined to become our ancestors.
The fact is that, from the point of view of our earthly experience, the physical and biological conditions of the "paradise" life are very peculiar, if not to say - absurd:
- “innocent souls” live in paradise;
- insensitive ("no tears, no sighs");
- those who eat limitedly (only leaves from the “tree of life” and “manna from heaven);
- there is no change of day and night, but “God himself shines” constantly.
Yes, this is more likely not life, but a kind of dream state, similar to "hypobiosis" - slow life activity! What strange fantasies possessed the authors of ancient myths, why such detail, devoid of meaning? But it is also aggravated by stories about how, taken out of such a Paradise, without understanding anything, Adam and Eve suddenly turn out to be capable of both feeling and thinking!
But what if you try to fantasize about the nonrandomness of the signs indicated in the Bible?
Let us imagine that under the "innocent souls" there is a sign of … immature. Indeed, both in biblical times and in ours, no one doubts the innocence of a child's soul.
Let us further imagine that the “cosmic experimenter” is faced with the task of preparing these “souls” for the very fact of their migration from Paradise to Earth. It is clear that the preparation should be carried out in such a way that a physically healthy future colonist would be mentally protected as well. No psyche of an adult intelligent person can withstand the realization of the absolute impossibility of returning to the usual extraterrestrial existence.
Let's take the courage and imagine how the Creator could reason - the need to grow a creature deprived of the memory of its own past requires transferring the functions of all organs, including the cerebral cortex, to the state of the above-mentioned hypobiosis. This is easy to do without any complicated technology. It is enough, for example, to change the composition of the inhaled air, reducing the oxygen content in it, and the influence of the pituitary gland (an appendage of the brain that controls the work of other glands) on the thyroid gland and adrenal glands will almost cease. And without the hormones of these glands, the vital activity of cells is, in principle, impossible. At the same time, the activity of the cells of the cerebral cortex, on which our conscious activity depends, will also decrease.
(In everyday life, we ourselves sometimes find ourselves in similar conditions, getting, for example, in a stuffy room. Lack of oxygen in the blood (hypoxia) gives us a feeling of lethargy, fatigue, inability to work mentally.)
Of course, the hypobiente still needs food (otherwise you won't grow up), but its amount should be limited, and the composition should be reduced to the minimum necessary components.
If we consider dietary proteins (peptides) not just as a set of various amino acids, but as carriers of new information programs, then only plants rich in fat-soluble vitamins A and E can claim the role of sources of energy-intensive compounds necessary for assimilation of these programs. but it was under such a plant - turpentine, that the revelation of God to Moses took place. By the way, the medicinal properties of this tree have been known since ancient times. Wounds, fractures, suppurations were treated by rubbing the sore spot with the juice of turpentine leaves.
Here we have both the biblical leaves from the "tree of life" and "manna from heaven" - an unknown protein that raised Adam and Eve in Paradise.
In an organism where the work of the pituitary gland, thyroid and adrenal glands is inhibited, any food overload can lead to disastrous consequences. Therefore, in conditions of hypobiosis, it is possible and necessary to provide the body with an influx of other biologically active substances that replace the lack of hormones of the endocrine glands.
To do this, it is enough to make the daylight hours constant. (Remember from the Bible: "… there will be no night, there will be no sun, God himself will shine …".) As you know, light removes the inhibitory effect of the pineal gland ("pineal gland" or "third eye") on the sex glands. This means that the absence of the "day-night" rhythm will ensure a uniform intake of the waste products of the sex cells into the body.
Each of us felt the influence of an extended daylight on ourselves when we fell into a lyrical mood in the spring. But chickens react to this circumstance with an increase in egg production. But since the metabolic processes of the hypobient should not go too fast, the luminous flux should be limited to the blue-violet region of the spectrum, eliminating the thermal effect of infrared rays …
By the way, our eyes become rather weak helpers in the zone close to ultraviolet light. Shortwave radiation does not provide image contrast, objects seem to lose their shadow. Maybe this is the mystery of the "big eyes" of the Australopithecus, whose ancestors were kept in the blue world of extraterrestrial Paradise?
It is obvious that the sexual maturity of a hypobiente developing in such conditions will not come in 16-17 Earth years, but much later. The one whom we call God had to have a reserve of time exceeding the duration of a single human life in order to nurture the future colonists of the Earth. Their happiness was the inability to remember their own childhood "years", because the memory of the past, which cannot be returned, is fatal for the psyche of a person endowed with reason! Yes, it is impossible to remember clearly about such a half-asleep childhood in the womb of Mother Nature.
Don't these descriptions remind us of the biblical story of Adam and Eve? Breathing in the oxygen-rich air of the Earth, the children of Paradise tore apart the veil that separated them from full bodily existence. For them, everything changed from that moment: the pituitary gland “joined” in the work, and behind it - the thyroid gland and adrenal glands, and there was an opportunity to expand their diet. The cells of the cerebral cortex began to work - and previously silent feelings were opened: Eve heard (the whisper of the Serpent), touched (the taste of an apple), saw (Adam's nakedness) and realized the difference between the sexes (the secrets of the “tree of knowledge”). The last thing remained - the reproduction of a species new to the earth - a man, for which God's blessing was received. But the earthly part of the history of "space seedlings" is another topic …
Earth evolution of migrants
As Charles Darwin put it, “The Earth had been preparing for a long time to receive a man,” who appeared on it, probably only about three million years ago. Despite the fact that anthropology and archeology have not yet been able to link the remains of our ancestors into a single evolutionary chain, it is generally accepted that different anthropoid forms are confined to certain epochs. So, the time of the Australopithecus is separated from us by 2-3 million years, the "Homo habilis" ("Homo habilis") - 600,000 years, the progressive Neanderthal - 70,000 years, the Cro-Magnon - 35-40 thousand years.
In the first part of our version of the history of the formation on Earth of the genus "Homo sapiens" ("Homo sapiens"), a possible scenario of the planet's colonization by "seedlings" of extraterrestrial origin was presented. The second part of it is devoted to explaining the mechanisms of adaptation and evolution of this "seedling" in the conditions of the Earth.
As you know, about fifty thousand generations (namely, generations of people, and not years and centuries, V. I. Vernadsky proposed to consider time!) Australopithecus stably retained their anthropological characteristics for one and a half or two (and maybe more) million years. Their perfect vision (day and night), excellent sense of smell and omnivorousness (plants and meat) ensured the survival of the population without involving the abstract-logical apparatus of thinking.
We know that individual groups of graceful (small, one and a half meters in height) australopithecines that went to the north and south of Africa became the ancestors of two dead-end branches, distinguished by gigantic growth, and those that remained near the place of the primary settlement retained their small size.
From a biological point of view, the phenomenon of gigantism can be explained by the very change in the ecological niche, which is always accompanied by a change in the diet. (A similar thing happens in the practice of industrial animal husbandry, when, for example, chickens or pigs are fed with microbial protein.) A change in the spectrum of traditional food proteins acts on the body as a powerful immunogenic stimulus.
This is accompanied by the stimulation of protein metabolism and increased growth, on the one hand, but also by the depletion of protective reserves (with prolonged exposure to a foreign protein), on the other. In other words, changing the traditional diet sooner or later, but inevitably leads to secondary immunodeficiency. (Fans of imported products, especially exotic fruits, minced meat, "Bush legs", etc. "have something to think about!)
Thus, the colonies of giant southern and northern australopithecines, replacing omnivorousness with a purely vegetable and alien in composition terrestrial diet, themselves created the basis for their future degeneration. Another factor was "reproductive isolation" - the impossibility of updating the genetic code by crossing with other "breeds" of its own species. In isolates, only incest was possible - interbreeding with close relatives. In principle, incest is safe for isolates that initially have defect-free genetic programs. However, in this case, the population should exist in fairly stable environmental conditions with strict preservation of the traditional protein composition of food. Thus, incest against the background of altered nutrition caused the extinction of giant forms.
Apparently, the living conditions of the colony of graceful australopithecines met the requirements of stability, which allowed them to survive without undergoing anatomical and physiological changes. But due to the relatively low fertility, the graceful australopithecines did not manage to fill the entire African continent in one and a half to two million years. The first birth control could be incest itself, which gives birth to offspring that are not highly fertile. The second is the possible confinement of the vital activity of our ancestors to the night time. Recall that the large eye sockets of the Australopithecus suggest this very idea. As you know, the fertility of nocturnal animals is relatively low, which is associated with the inhibitory effect of the pineal gland (pineal gland) on the gonads. It is the light that removes this inhibition and activates the daytime search for a sexual partner.
Thus, the process of adaptation of the graceful Australopithecus - the first colonists of the Earth was stretched over many hundreds of years, which became the foundation of the entire further history of the formation of the earthly race of mankind.
However, about six hundred thousand years ago, some changes in the body structure of Australopithecus became obvious, which allowed modern archaeologists to single out them into an independent form - "Homo habilis" ("Homo habilis"), able to more perfectly use his hands to arrange his own life and provide himself with food. Two hundred thousand years ago, another step was taken, and nature took the birth of yet another variant - a progressive Neanderthal, an anthropologically quite harmonious creature.
Its habitat has gone beyond the borders of Africa proper (another change of the ecological niche, but without catastrophic consequences for the species), and evidence of the existence of the speech gyrus of the brain appeared on the endocranes (inner surface) of the skulls. From its appearance, most likely, the division of humanity into two types begins: right-brain (creators) and left-brain (destroyers).
This form of the "progressive Neanderthal" after 120 thousand years was replaced by the "classical Neanderthals", with the appearance of which we all have associated the idea of our ancestors roughly slapped by nature. Finally, about forty thousand years ago, those with whom there is no longer any desire to disown themselves entered the arena of life - the Cro-Magnons.
It is important that at each stage of these transformations in the gene pool of ancestral forms, the accumulation of new racial characteristics was more and more clearly manifested. Apparently, this was due to their artificial sequential introduction - at the beginning of the australoid genes, then the Europeids and later - the Mongoloids. Modern nationalities and national groups are a product, on the one hand, of far-reaching cross-breeding (marriage relations between representatives of different races), on the other, of secondary isolation.
It should be noted that even during secondary isolation (from interethnic marital relations), the offspring acquires a certain defect that worsens the viability of the population. This is due to both a decrease in adaptability and fertility, and an increase in dependence on the instability of environmental conditions. Such isolates play the role of “canaries in mines” in modern society, which are the first to react to environmental abnormalities. (Demographic indicators - mortality, fertility, life expectancy of representatives of small peoples - are the best indicators of the state of society and the state. And these indicators in no case should be summed up with the data characterizing the demography of ethnic groups entering into mixed marriages without restrictions. Such summation is the right way to hide the truth.)
Why is it generally legitimate to assume the participation of racially determined genetic donors in the formation of the Homo clan on Earth? Yes, because random and multidirectional genetic mutations do not allow the history of mankind to keep within its actual time period. Such an opportunity can be provided only by heterosis - a mechanism based on interbreed (interracial) crossing.
And today, in the practice of agricultural selection, this technique allows you to improve the breed qualities of the offspring, including providing him with increased fertility in the next few generations. It was the increased fertility of the offspring from mixed marriages that made it possible to oust from the arena of life the ancestral variants possessing both better vision and a better sense of smell.
Descendants less perfect in these traits, in addition to increased fertility, also had higher adaptive capabilities as carriers of a chimeric hereditary program. Consequently, there is no reason to attract to the history of the formation of mankind the mechanisms of mutation, which always lead either to cancer, if they touch the DNA of body cells, or to degeneration, if they affect the genetic programs of germ cells.
Of course, the inclusion of the mechanism of heterosis in the scheme of human evolution in no way excludes from it the mechanisms of subsequent selection and struggle for existence.
The dynamics of the formation and death (departure) of each of the successive ancestral forms of man, in principle, is identical to the dynamics of the development of populations of any species, including microbial ones. The difference is only in time, since the entire cycle has been reduced to two or three dozen hours. It is important that, as in the case of human ancestors, in the early stages of the formation of the microbial population, cells also undergo a kind of heterosis, which is called "transformation" in microbiology. The essence of the latter is the introduction into the genes of a microbe of small fragments of DNA entering the nutrient medium from dead cells of microbes of the same species.
One of the DNA strands of a dead cell is inserted into one of the two strands of a young microbial cell. This destabilizes the relatively equilibrium state of double-stranded DNA and makes it more accessible to the influence of the environment. It is in this state that the ability of cells to adapt is maximally realized, and the cell itself and several generations of its descendants receive an incentive to reproduce.
On the curve illustrating the dynamics of population development in a closed environment, this stage corresponds to an exponential segment, when the number of newly formed cells exceeds the number of deaths. After a few hours, when the disequilibrium in the system of paired DNA chains in the offspring decreases, and the environment accumulates toxins, the intensity of reproduction decreases. The population reaches an even "plateau" when the numbers of dying and newly formed cells equalize. On the graph (Fig. 1 and 2), these changes look like a rise (exponential), an even location ("plateau") and a fall in the curve. The inevitable completion of the fate of the population of microbes accumulated in this environment is death.
However, if the nutrient medium is artificially purified from metabolic products, then the duration of the "plateau" can be infinitely long.
Thus, it depends on the experimenter whether the population of microbes, left to its own devices, will die, or will survive due to outside help. The population transplanted by a person into a test tube with a new portion of the nutrient medium will repeat the same cycle - "exponential increase in numbers - stabilization of the number of microbes - death (or reseeding)". The third way is limited reproduction, subject to constant cleaning of the environment from waste products.
The dynamics of the growth of the human population, divided into the epochs of the formation of ancestral forms, repeats the described curve to the details, and each next exit to an exponential segment simply requires the participation of a heterotic mechanism.
Figure 2 shows how the duration of the "plateau" of each new ancestral form is steadily decreasing, and the steepness of the exponent increases as the population becomes cross - the accumulation of genetic diversity.
The logic of these events suggests that the "plateau" of modern humanity will hardly be at all or will be short-lived. And this is the Apocalypse - the predicted possibility of the end of the world. Now the moment has come when it depends on the people themselves - to live on or to leave forever.
We were given everything: a green blooming planet with ideal conditions for life - earthly Paradise, and a Soul that can love and feel this world, and Reason that can understand the meaning of ancient myths and legends as a reflection of the real history of mankind, and even, as we are now convinced of these considerations, the memory of their creation.
So, can you not believe in the Creator? But then why did He send us to this earth?
And if in order to choose for extraterrestrial life (recall the insights of the Holy Fathers of Orthodoxy: N. Fedorov, K. Tsiolkovsky, D. Mendeleev, V. Vernadsky, etc.) the souls of only those of us who understand his Divine plan: life is given us not for the pursuit of material goods, but for the spiritual co-creation of ourselves in His image and likeness.
Albina BIYCHANINOVA