Modern humankind is neither “the pinnacle of creation” nor the result of a long evolution. It seems to have appeared out of nowhere—suddenly and all at once. And before us, many other kinds of human civilizations lived on this Earth. None of the ones we consider our ancestors were even our “relatives.”
And these—other—humankinds turned out to be far more successful than we are, and they lasted tens of times longer than we exist today. It seems that different species of humankind arise and disappear in a cyclical way on the planet: humankind gets “reset,” returns to its beginning, and everything starts anew.
And millions of years ago, entirely different civilizations existed on the planet—absolutely unlike ours—populated by other kinds of people.
They weren’t “dead-end” branches. Perhaps it’s we who are the dead end…
So where did modern humankind come from? And is it destined to vanish just as quickly?