PROLOGUE
Our Inalienable Link to the Cosmos
CHAPTER 1
Genesis of a Theory
CHAPTER 2
The Deepest Questions
CHAPTER 3
A Cosmic Creator?
CHAPTER 4
The Nature of Consciousness
CHAPTER 5
Viral Footprints in the Evolution to Homo sapiens sapiens
CHAPTER 6
Unbridled Greed--A Cosmic Imperative?
CHAPTER 7
Lessons from the Copernican Revolution
CHAPTER 8
East Is East and West Is West
CHAPTER 9
The Threat of Cometary Missiles
CHAPTER 10
A Historical Context
CHAPTER 11
So What if We Came from Space?
CHAPTER 12
The World of 2100
EPILOGUE
The New Cosmic Worldview
Bibliography
Index
Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., is the director of the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham. A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy, he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Astrobiology and Outreach and coauthor of Cosmic Womb. He lives in Cardiff, Wales. Kamala Wickramasinghe, MA, is a freelance writer and editor with a master’s degree in English from the University of Cambridge. The managing editor of the Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics (ISPA), she lives in Cardiff, Wales. Gensuke Tokoro is an honorary professor at Ruhuna University, president and CEO of Kyoto Biopharma, Inc., and executive director of ISPA. He lives in Japan.
“Above all what this book embraces with passion and scientific
rigor is the magic and the mystery of life. An enchanting,
thought-provoking, and important read. Don’t miss it!”
*Graham Hancock, author of America Before: The Key to Earth’s
Civilization and Fingerprints of*
“Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars is an excellent read! Professor
Chandra Wickramasinghe, a pioneer of the theory of panspermia and
cosmic biology, writes of the accumulating evidence that life
populates all capable hosting places throughout the galaxy and the
universe. The authors of the book conclude that our salvation as a
species lies in the recognition and acknowledgment of our
inalienable cosmic origins.”
*Rudy Schild, Ph.D., emeritus astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics*
“This is a beautifully written book about our cosmic origins and
will be understood by everyone wanting to learn more about the
origins and further evolution of life on Earth. All the authors
have been actively involved in assembling the hard scientific
evidence for panspermia and communicating these important proofs to
a wider audience. For the past 50 years Sir Fred Hoyle, Professor
Chandra Wickramasinghe, and their many contemporary collaborators,
such as Gensuke Tokoro, director of the Institute for the Study of
Panspermia and Astrobiology (Gifu, Japan), are causing, through
their untiring efforts, the second Copernican revolution. Thus 500
years after Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, then Newton
displaced the Earth from the center of the universe, which heralded
the birth of the Renaissance in medieval Europe, we are now
witnessing an extraordinary rebirth in scientific thinking. We
therefore live in revolutionary times. Life did not originate from
nonliving elements on the early Earth as is commonly believed--as
promulgated by the traditional neo-Darwinian theory of terrestrial
evolution. It originated at some unknowable time in deep cosmic
antiquity and has spread by panspermic infections and further
evolution to all life-compatible habits--comets, moons,
planets--throughout the universe.”
*Edward J. Steele, Ph.D., coauthor of Lamarck’s Signature*
“Chandra Wickramasinghe’s central belief that basic microbial life
in the universe could be very common and that it naturally spread
across the galaxy is extended in this book to take on the topics of
evolution itself and the future progress of humanity. Half a
century after Neil Armstrong’s ‘one small step’ on the moon, this
book is timely, as the authors ponder key ‘cosmic’ questions about
where we may have come from and what our future holds.”
*Nick Spall, space and science writer*
“Everybody should read this brilliant book! It tells you the
answers to many of the things that keep you awake at night.
Ultimately, this is a book of hope, the hope of the universal
prevalence of life and that we are all part of a cosmic community
which has no ending. Read this book and see everything you thought
you knew in a new and vital perspective.”
*Robert Temple, author of The Sphinx Mystery*
"This book is a fascinating insight into how we, as a race, came
into being on this planet. We may never know the true origins of
our species beyond Earth, but Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars
offers a very readable and entertaining yet fact-based alternative
to the status quo."
*Bruce Stringer, New Dawn Magazine*
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