It is well known that the planet Earth has experienced multiple mass extinction events and even though science is very advanced today, it is impossible for humans to reconstruct the world as it existed before the evolution and sapience of our species. This reminds me of a scientific anecdote that I came across in a journal of astrology: Because the cosmos is expanding out at a rate that seems to increase over time, eventually the stars and planets of our solar system, and everywhere else in the universe, will be so far apart, that there will come a point in the future when there will be no evidence of anything else in the cosmos from the Earth’s surface. This means that if humanity were able to survive to this point in the future when everything has moved far away from everything else in the universe, a point that is very much in the distant future and impossible for a planet to realize, then humans on Earth would not be able to observe stars or planets in the cosmos even with a telescope. It would be possible in that impossible future for humanity to be distrustful of a history that speaks of distant stars and planets because there will be no observable proof.
This has happened anthropologically and archaeologically. There are limits to all of humanity’s sciences; anthropology and archeology for instance rely heavily on our ability to uncover the history of the planet by studying the remnants of the past. But artifacts of a long gone history are not easy, or are impossible, to uncover.
We have done our best to reconstruct a period of Earth’s history that was dominated by dinosaurs, which occurred about 65 million years ago, and our theories about that past are updated with new insights every year that show the limitations of humanity’s ability to understand the true history of its planet. Imagine the great uncertainty of reconstructing the past at the dawn of the Earth as we know it, which is about 4.5 billion years old.
This was Dr. Davenport’s goal with the publication of this book, The First People, to as accurately as he could, based on the historical evidence available to him at the time, document life on Earth in pre-human history that is elusive to humanity because of the lack of physical evidence that survives to this day. It is a daunting prospect to say the least and one would assume that a work about the early history of Earth is largely fabricated in the imagination of the writer.
As a woman of African American descent, I have had to reconcile the difficult past of the Consortium of Human History – an organization of which I am proud to say I am currently a high ranking member – with my current enthusiasm and dedication to and for the goals of the organization. I am not a proponent of eugenics as many of the early members of this organization were unabashedly proud to be, but I do understand the important work of preserving the purity of the lineages of the First People that still exist today because these families are the only surviving relics of the time long before early humanity in its most primitive iteration, a time long before dinosaurs, before the Great Dying even. The concept of the First People seems to have been a flight of Dr. Davenport’s imagination; the crazy notion that a species of beings similar to humanity that existed on Earth before the most effective mass extinction event in Earth’s history (The Great Dying or the Permian-Triassic extinction of roughly 250 million years ago), who somehow survived in very small, well hidden, and reclusive communities on every continent of the Earth, to eventually co-mingle with humanity and produce hybrid lineages of human beings and these First People. It is a crazy story, much like the idea of a starry night in that far-flung future that I referred to before.
The First People cannot be verified, there are no frozen specimens, no fossil record, no ruins or structures that evidence a pre-ancient culture, but that does not mean that it is not true. The Consortium has verified the ideas here-in and this work is an early example of our organization’s ability to uncover the history that everyone else considers lost.
The professionals who made up this Consortium in its infancy certainly had misguided ideas. Their willingness to suggest the superiority of the descendants of the First People was superfluous at best, and deadly in the worst instances. The descendants are in no way superior to pure humans, just different, distinct. Our commitment to genetic segregation is an act of curation, an attempt to preserve history for a future that will be distrustful of the truth without evidence.
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Lynnette Jones, M.D.-Ph.D D.H.A. 1990
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