Stranger From the Depths by Gerry Turner

Two boys confirm the Silurian hypothesis. Humanity is not the first
civilized species on Earth.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs
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On 07.01.24 15:13, James Nicoll wrote:

Stranger From the Depths by Gerry Turner

Two boys confirm the Silurian hypothesis. Humanity is not the first civilized species on Earth.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs

There are civilized species on earth???
Please explain.

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On Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:13:08 +0000, James Nicoll wrote:

Stranger From the Depths by Gerry Turner

Two boys confirm the Silurian hypothesis. Humanity is not the first civilized species on Earth.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs

Somebody should edit the Wikpedia entry for the Silurian
Hypothesis to add a reference to this novel.

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On 2024-01-08, Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

Stranger From the Depths by Gerry Turner
Two boys confirm the Silurian hypothesis. Humanity is not the first
civilized species on Earth.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs

Somebody should edit the Wikpedia entry for the Silurian
Hypothesis to add a reference to this novel.

I thought about adding _Perry Rhodan_'s Lemuria there--humanity
already had a starfaring civilization 50,000 years ago, centered
on the continent of Lemuria that disappeared below the Pacific--but
I suspect the trope is rather more common than the authors of the
2018 paper thought, and the "In popular culture" section is going
to explode.

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In article <slrnupnvkl.k8a.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2024-01-08, Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

Stranger From the Depths by Gerry Turner
Two boys confirm the Silurian hypothesis. Humanity is not the first
civilized species on Earth.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs

Somebody should edit the Wikpedia entry for the Silurian
Hypothesis to add a reference to this novel.

I thought about adding _Perry Rhodan_'s Lemuria there--humanity
already had a starfaring civilization 50,000 years ago, centered
on the continent of Lemuria that disappeared below the Pacific--but
I suspect the trope is rather more common than the authors of the
2018 paper thought, and the "In popular culture" section is going
to explode.

Silurian civilizations are pre-human, not early but undocumented
human.
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On 2024-01-08, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Silurian civilizations are pre-human, not early but undocumented
human.

Okay. The Wikipedia entry is vague in this regard. I just checked
the Schmidt/Frank paper, and they're only interested in pre-Quaternary
(2.5 million years) industrial civilizations, since later ones would
be very evident in the geological record.

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