Contents

1. Cover Image
2. Title Page
3. Epigraph
4. Acknowledgments
5. A Note on Evolution, Chronology, and Abbreviations
6. Introduction: The Unexpected Family Tree
   1. IN THE DOCKET
   2. THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN
   3. PALEOPOLITICS
   4. THE TRUTH WILL OUT
   5. THE NOOKIE FACTOR
   6. THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
   7. CAST OF CHARACTERS
7. Prologue: Diaspora - The Story of Pan
   1. THE LIGHT BEARERS FROM PAN
   2. FIVE BROTHERS, FIVE RACES
   3. WHERE DID WHITE PEOPLE COME FROM?
   4. CAUCASIANS IN THE PACIFIC RIM
   5. OCEANIA ITSELF
   6. JAFFETH, SON OF NOAH, IN CHINA
   7. GUATAMA, SON OF NOAH, IN THE AMERICAS
   8. THE JAPANESE CONNECTION
8. Chapter 1. Our Knowledge Is Skeletal: The Truth behind the Bones
   1. MEET PROTOMAN: ASU
   2. WAS AUSTRALOPITHECUS OUR ANCESTOR?: ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON
   3. THE FIX IS IN
   4. BARE BONES
   5. DEAD ENDS AND HOMELESS FACTS
   6. GOING IN CIRCLES
   7. HOW THE MIGHTY ARE FALLEN
   8. A PAEAN TO MOTHER NATURE
   9. BLUEPRINT FOR A COMPETITIVE AGE
   10. NOT A DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD
9. Chapter 2. Return of the Hobbit: Our Ancestors the Little People
   1. HOBBIT HULLABALOO
   2. HOMO SAPIENS PYGMAEUS
   3. A LOST RACE
   4. NEGRITO PEOPLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
   5. THE SECOND RACE OF MAN
10. Chapter 3. Cheek by Jowl: Coexistence of the Early Races
    1. NEIGHBORS NOT ANCESTORS
    2. ROCK BANGERS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
    3. INTIMATE RELATIONS
    4. HYBRIDS, HYBRIDS, NOTHING BUT HYBRIDS
    5. A MIXED BAG
    6. HOPELESSLY MIXED
    7. THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
    8. AND CAIN SLEW ABEL
    9. CHILDREN OF ABEL
11. Chapter 4. “I Do Not Believe I Ever Was a Fish”: Debunking Evolution
    1. SPECIATION
    2. WALKING WHALES AND OTHER CHIMERAS
    3. PROMISSORY MATERIALISM
    4. HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
    5. THE ISOLATION CARD
    6. LEAPS AND BOUNDS
    7. AN ABOMINABLE MYSTERY
    8. AUTHOR’S INTERLUDE
    9. GOOD-SHAPED MEN
    10. SO LITTLE HAS CHANGED
    11. A HORSE IS A HORSE IS A HORSE
12. Chapter 5. The Mating Game: Crossbreeding from Day One
    1. IS NEANDERTHAL OUR ANCESTOR?
    2. KISSING COUSINS: HIGHLIGHTS OF NEANDERTHAL DISCOVERIES
    3. DIVERGED OR MERGED?
    4. ROOM OF MIRRORS
    5. A NEW RACE WAS BORN
    6. LUMPERS AND SPLITTERS
    7. CUTE IN THEIR OWN WAY
    8. LAST DITCH: DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION
13. Chapter 6. The Timekeepers: The Uncertainties of Scientific Dating
    1. INFLATIONARY TIMES
    2. ADDING ZEROS
    3. WORLD’S GREATEST FOSSIL: NE PLUS ULTRA
    4. CONTROVERSY, CONTAMINATION, AND CONFUSION
    5. THE DIFFICULTIES OF ACCURATE DATING
    6. A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE
    7. COSMIC CLIMATE
    8. BIG POPULATIONS AND EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
14. Chapter 7. The Spark: Factoring In the Human Spirit
    1. MY SPECIAL HERESY
    2. CHILD OF THE STARS
    3. TIP OF THE RAY
    4. RAISED UP
    5. SONS OF HEAVEN, DAUGHTERS OF EARTH
    6. ETERNAL LIFE
    7. “I WILL HAVE NO CASTE”
15. Chapter 8. “That Mystery of Mysteries”: Science vs. Intelligent Design
    1. THE GOD PARTICLE
    2. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
    3. LUNATIC FRINGE
    4. OF ALL THE ANIMALS
    5. CHIMPS AND CHUMPS
    6. PONGIDS AND PUNDITS
    7. WE WHO WALK ON THE “HIND PAIR OF HANDS”
    8. BEYOND THE PALE
    9. GODLIKE PRECISION
16. Chapter 9. Mutants, Monsters, and Morphogenesis: Back to the Facts
    1. THE WORM WHO WOULD BE MAN
    2. ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM: PULLING THE CLIMATE CARD
    3. ON THEIR HIND LEGS
    4. THE TOOL-FOOD-BRAIN CONNECTION
    5. HOT FOOD AND BIG BRAINS
    6. MAN THE HUNTER
    7. TALKATIVE CHIMPS
    8. THE MECHANICS OF SPEECH
    9. MUTATION: DUMB LUCK
    10. INDIVISIBLE COMPLEXITY
    11. AN INTRICATE WEB
    12. SPEAKING OF MONSTERS
17. Chapter 10. When the World Was Young: The Question of How Life Began
    1. SEMUAN BEGINNINGS
    2. SOMETHING CAN’T COME FROM NOTHING
    3. THE QUICKENING . . . AND THE COOLING
    4. HOW OLD IS THE EARTH, REALLY?
    5. EXTINCTIONS: A TIME TO LIVE AND A TIME TO DIE
    6. HOMINID EXTINCTIONS
    7. RACIAL DIVERSITY AND SKIN COLOR
18. Chapter 11. Not Out of Africa: The Many Gardens of Eden
    1. THE LONGEST HIKE
    2. AFRICAN EXODUS PART TWO
    3. BORN TO ROAM
    4. POLYGENESIS AND THE RACE CARD
    5. THE GREAT EXODUS
    6. MOTHER ASIA—AND BEYOND
    7. NO ONE KNOWS
    8. HAM, SON OF NOAH
    9. BLACKS DID NOT TURN WHITE
    10. SEARCH FOR MODS TURNS UP MIXES
    11. OCEANIA AND THE OOA THEORY
    12. NEW WORLD NOT SO NEW
19. Chapter 12. Dead Man Walking: Living Evidence of Ancient Races
    1. SWAMPED
    2. NEANDERTHAL: MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD
    3. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HOMO ERECTUS?
    4. DEAD MAN WALKING
    5. HOMO FERUS
    6. BATS, BATAKS, AND BATUTUTS
    7. AT THE END OF THE DAY
20. Appendices
    1. Appendix A: The Temples of Khu: A Word Study
    2. Appendix B: Ghan: A Word Study
    3. Appendix C: Ihuan: A Word Study
    4. Appendix D: Evidence of High Civilization in Ancient Oceania
    5. Appendix E: Some Anachronisms
    6. Appendix F: New World Not So New
21. Glossary
22. Footnotes
23. Endnotes
24. Bibliography
25. Index
26. About the Author
27. About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
28. Books of Related Interest
29. Copyright & Permissions