Advances in Astrophysics

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DOI: 10.22606/adap.2020.54001

• N. Chandra Wickramasinghe^*
  1 Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, UK; 2 Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka; 3 National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 4 Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan
• Gensuke Tokoro
  1 Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka; 2 Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan
• Maximiliano C.L. Rocca
  Mendoza 2779-16A, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

The theory of cometary panspermia posits that the evolution of life on Earth including the introductions of novel innovative trends is controlled to a large extent by the incidence of bacteria and viruses from the wider cosmos. In this communication we point out the possibility that the defining characteristics of H. sapiens – intelligence, acuity of vision amongst others - may have been introduced into ancestral Anthropoidea primates 35-40 million years ago (Mya) when the Earth was being showered with cometary debris.

comets, primates, Eocene, human evolution

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