The truth is, we really still do not know for absolute sure how humanity ended up on this planet. Most educated people no longer believe in the Biblical creation myth. Charles Darwin is certainly the person most associated with modern scientific theories concerning evolution of not only the human species, but of all living things. His works revolutionized our understanding of the way the planet became populated with all life. But was he completely correct? How did humans really end up on earth? In these past decades, many people now wonder if we were seeded by aliens, myself included. In fact, with each passing day, I think there's a pretty good chance we are going to finally have all our questions of origin answered with no room for doubts, and the answers will probably be extremely disturbing to a great many people.
This index page is devoted to everything concerning evolution, which includes devolutiion. We are certainly in the process of that right now. The vast majority of people on this planet have devolved into something horrid: greedy, selfish, mean, rude. We have raped and plundered our precious Earth and her other creatures, and every passing day brings us closer to paying the price for our wickedness. Edward O. Wilson said, " Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself." We shall see the result, and pretty soon, I believe.
Many authors wrote fiction which concerns evolution/devolution. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote, in her novel, Herland, about an isolated race of women who evolved totally different than the rest of humanity, but in a positive way. Others have written about isolated peoples who have not evolved at all, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World; and Michael Crichton's book of the same title is about scientists who bring back dinosaurs, long extinct. And of course any scientific non-fictional books that in any way discuss our evolving/devolving species are included here, too. This index will not include fantasy civilizations on other planets. I have quite a bit of very cool materials destined for this page. Hope you check them out.