THE MISSING LINK OR THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL LINKWay back in the year 1986 when I was Perusing my Masters degree in the fieldof anthropology an incident of one day still haunted me until I decided to delveinto it further. My Professor Dr.D.P.Mukherjee was lecturing us about thepsychosomatological evolution of human beings. This was a series of lectureswhich delved with the physical evolution from primate to being Homo sapiens.Very interesting was the fact that we humans have developed from early apesthrough the intermediates on to what we are today. Documenting this very chronological process was a series of paleontological and palaeoanthropological finds in terms of fossils discovered at various times in variousplaces. From Australopithecus to pithecanthropus erectus to homoNeanderthals to the Cro-Magnon man to Homo sapiens to homo sapienssapiens. These are the major fossil finds that describe the chronology of thephysical evolution. The Australopithecus was more like a ape, but a little morerefined than the chimpanzee. The length of the arm was longer below the kneesbut they had started to show bipedal gait which is a very prominentevolutionary feature on its way to becoming a human. The cranial capacity wasabout 400cc to 500cc which meant that the brain was still in the process of development. Therefore this ancestor of ours showed little intelligence the samelevel we can see in the chimpanzees. They even must have used certain toolslike the chimpanzee uses a stick to remove ants from an ant hole. Physicalevolution basically had to occur in five major directions.1. The arms reduced in length. We might have noticed that the primates havearms which are long enough to reach beyond the knee length. This extendedarms helped the primate to do knuckle walking as seen in the gorillas and thechimpanzee. The reduction in the arms length was the first step towardsmaking a human out of a primate.2. The thumb and the great toe came in line with the other appendages. Theninety degree alignment of the thumb and the great toe was of great help to theprimate as they were arboreal in nature and the opposing thumb and the greattoe helped them to grasp the branches of the tree. Humans had to come downfrom the tree and start living on the plains and forests and for that they neededstability while standing and running and that is the reason for the evolution toproceed in that direction where by the appendages aligned in line with theothers.
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. Pelvis got centered there by distributing the load effectively between the twolegs. This would give the hominid more vertical stability and hence the evolvinghominid would no longer need the tail. The tail therefore diminished and today we humans have a remnant of the tail which is anatomically known as thecoccyx.4. All the above three direction of evolution helped the hominid to have bipedalgait leaving the hands totally free to do things that the intelligent brain woulddirect it to do in future. With bipedal gait the vision also improved to a greatextent, accurate judgment of distance now became possible with the ability of the brain to process the image coming from two inputs and merging themtogether to give a three dimensional binocular perspective of the object.5. The structural changes done the brain now well in its optimum placedeveloped from a mere 400 cc to 1500 cc. The cranial capacity increasedgreatly and so did the intelligence. Level of intelligence development can beseen quite chronologically from Australopithecus to homo erectus to homoerectus erectus. Early hominids developed stone tools as the brain processedthe requirement and started finding solutions for those requirements. They then started staying in large groups there by requiring some social structureand laws to keep the group from disintegrating and also realizing that thegroup functions better and viably than being individualistic. There is a clearindication of division of labor which is a very strong indication of sophisticatedand multifaceted intelligence.What was interesting in that lecture was the fact the next step in the physicalevolution ,the Homo Neanderthals show a tremendous spurt of intelligencewith cave drawings, more refined weapons and accessories and much morecomplex social structures and rituals like the burial rituals which indicates avery high form of intelligences and a concept of death whereby the dead isbelieved to go into another world. Some sort of language also developed andcommunication was established and information was being passed on from onegeneration to the other. There seems to be no intermediate fossil find to provethat the intelligence also developed chronologically to and from the level thatwe find in Homo Neanderthals. Our professor explained that here is theconcept of the ´missing linkµ.During this period I was reading a book by Eric Von Daniken and was a greatfan of him by the time I finished reading his book Chariots of fire in which hedescribed that the extraterrestrial life form came upon to the earth and hadintercourse with the population of the earth and thereby the extraterrestrial
intelligence then percolated through. I also met Mr Daniken during that periodof time when he had come to visit Kolkata University. Authors like Erich vonDäniken claim that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials and that some sort of genetic engineering was performed by these ancient astronauts. That they created or changed the human race. For over
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0 years, Erich von Däniken haspursued the theory which postulates that Earth might have been visited by extraterrestrials in the remote past. Erich von Däniken has become famous foran infamous idea: that the origins of human culture lie not simply in evolution,but in the influence of extraterrestrial beings. Beginning with his first book,´Chariots of the Godsµ, he has argued that the artifacts of ancient culturesshow evidence of these visitors, who were sometimes viewed by humans asgods.He referred to ancient Inca, Aztec, Egyptian and even Indian holy writings togather proof for his theory. In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called vimanas. These fallinto two categories: (l) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with theaid of birdlike wings, and (2) complex structures that fly in a mysteriousmanner and are generally not made by human beings. The machines incategory (l) are described mainly in medieval, secular Sanskrit works dealingwith architecture, military siege engines, and other mechanical contrivances. Those in category (2) are described in ancient works such as the Rig Veda, theMahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas, and they have many featuresanalogous of UFOs. I remember reading in the book Chariots of fire that theBuddhist has a clear cut concept on extra terrestrial visit. In their holy scripture there is a mention of God coming in from the heaven in a ball of fireand emerging from that ball.Cradled in South Africa's Krueger National Park lies a private game reservecalled Timbavati. This emerald jewel of the African bush is almost mythical inreputation. White lions are born in here, it is said. "A long story is told about achieftainess called Numbi," Elder Credo recounts. "Many generations ago, sheand her people saw a burning white light like a star fall out of the sky rightwhere Timbavati is today. The story is that it was not a star; it was a shiningball of metal, brighter than the Sun. When this ball came down to the ground,Queen Numbi, who was a sick old woman at that time, went towards the lightand was swallowed by the light. In that light, very faintly seen, were strangebeings with very large heads. These beings received Numbi into the light, andfor some hours she was inside. When she emerged and walked toward herpeople; she had become much younger than when she had gone into the light.
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