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Strange Creations by Donna Kossy, Feral House, £12.99, ISBN
0922915652

HOW did human beings evolve? Where did we come from? These are questions
almost everyone has toyed with at some time or other. Donna Kossy’s Strange
Creatures is about people who have spent rather more time on these problems than
most, visiting some of the weirder reaches of the human imagination—the
obsessions and cult religions that provide the raw material for lucrative books
and profitable rackets.

Some of these theories about our origins are familiar. Take the belief that
ancient astronauts colonised Earth or fertilised female hominids, thus spawning…

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