The Human Reality
A Reinterpretation of Our Origins and Evolution

The book The Human Reality is much more than a study of human anthropology and evolution. It reveals how the startling degenerative changes in human behaviour from small evolutionary groups of hunter-gatherers at home in the world, into re-evolutionary composite animals called nations (resembling giant human beings) at war with the world, have specific implications that threaten human extinction.

As modern humans seeking the truth of our evolutionary biology and human origins, we presume we are looking back at our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and tracing our evolutionary descent in an unbroken line from Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers to ourselves. My research over the past 40 years reveals a very different picture and philosophy.

Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers were as highly developed and as relatively perfected as any other wild animal over millions of years of evolutionary adaptation within the natural environment. They ranged freely in ecological understanding through the wilderness, their well-beloved home. Then, at the end of the last Ice Age, 10-12 000 BP, some of their kind were, I believe, forced by pressures beyond their control to adapt to a primitive subsistence agriculture. At the same time they underwent an extraordinary change in physique and in behaviour. In the words of Valerius Geist, professor of environmental design at the University of Calgary (New Scientist, 22 February 1979):

Ice Age people were remarkably well developed with large athletic bodies, robust bones free of diseases, and brain sizes some 20 per cent larger than our own. Their physical development contrasts sharply with populations from Europe during the Mesolithic, when small body size and brain size, diseased bones and teeth, and signs of homicide and cannibalism were the norm.

Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers were made as relatively perfect in their physical and psychical adaptations as they were in their hunter-gatherer techniques. They were in fact masters of their own environment. It is unlikely, therefore, that these magnificent hunters chose to adapt out of a highly developed hunter-gatherer way of life – one that was absolutely conducive to their health, happiness, general stability and well-being – to a primitive subsistence agriculture and protected village environment. Rather, a few were , I believe, forced so to adapt. Their adoption of a primitive subsistence agriculture as a principal means of providing food would so adversely have affected their physical and psychical development and health as to cause a degeneration in their judgement, dexterity and skills, eventually making the hunter-gatherer way of life impossible to them. Loss of hunter-gatherer abilities and of health would so have interacted with each other as to reduce them to a gross imperfection. In that condition they were no longer superb masters of their environment. They were instead at the mercy of the wild environment. They were people devoid of everything that had previously distinguished them as human. They were failed and feeble units in what was to them a giant and chaotic universe.

In effect, we are not the direct descendents of Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers but of quite different animals, primitive degenerate animals who may be designated Homo degener. These animals could only survive in the world by cutting back the wilderness and cohering in groups in protected environments, each one a separate society with its own culture and civilisation. As they slowly developed hierarchies of leaders and led, these groups began to multiply and grow as composite animals comprising controlling head, fighting arms and cultivating hands and feet. Their members faced the wilderness and world not as individual hunter-gatherers as heretofore, but as corporate bodies of failed people to whom the outside world was a hostile environment, an alien void. Aliens themselves in a world which had previously been their well-beloved home, these composite animals now spread their prison-like protected environments outwards to engulf the wilderness and other humans. For whereas previously all people had belonged to one species – Homo sapiens, true humankind – at home in the world, a majority now belonged to new (pioneer) species of composite animal at war with the world; whose principal concern has been to make the world as comfortable and safe as possible for their alien and exotic kind. Having been degraded and dominated by nature, Homo degener now degrades and dominates nature in revenge.

Each nation is a protected environment of failed people fundamentally at war with the world. In other words, all the aggressive characteristics so conducive to the well-being of people as hunter-gatherers evolving co-operatively in a freedom of movement in the horizontal within nature are redirected and perverted to serve static composite animals concerned to expand in the horizontal, the better to ascend in the vertical in competition with other and similar exotic animals. It is this frustration and perversion of the potential of true human beings that makes for man’s inhumanity to man. The co-operative cultures of the hunter-gatherers gave way to intra-specific rivalry and warfare. We are no longer evolving as true humans, integrated within the natural world. We are members of re-evolutionary composite animals alienated from one another, and from the natural world, and subject to an increasingly competitive convergent evolution.

Understand this, and you will have begun to understand who you are, why you are here and where you are going.