Humans are humans. One species. Linear evolution. Ape to hominid to homo sapiens over six million years of slow, grinding, Darwinian selection. Clean line. Textbook diagram. Simple. Except, the textbook diagram keeps changing. Every decade, another branch appears. Another cousin species. Another interbreeding event. For example, Neanderthal DNA in Europeans. Denisovan DNA in East Asians and Pacific Islanders. “Ghost populations” (the geneticists’ actual term) showing up in Af

On the historical surface, reincarnation exists in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, certain Kabbalistic traditions, Druze faith, multiple West African cosmologies, ancient Greek philosophy, Cathar Christianity. It’s statistically the majority human belief across history. More humans have believed in reincarnation than haven’t. If you believe in it, it’s a cycle of; you die, you return, you learn, you grow, you eventually escape. The wheel. Samsara. The assumption cooked