[Taxacom] Octopuses Came From Outer Space

[John Grehan]

Believe whatever you will I guess :)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798

Abstract

We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the
Hoyle-Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology. Much of
this physical and biological evidence is multifactorial. One particular
focus are the recent studies which date the emergence of the complex
retroviruses
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/retroviruses>
 of vertebrate lines at or just before the Cambrian Explosion of ∼500 Ma.
Such viruses are known to be plausibly associated with major evolutionary
genomic
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/evolutionary-genomics>
processes.
We believe this coincidence is not fortuitous but is consistent with a key
prediction of H-W theory whereby major extinction-diversification
evolutionary boundaries coincide with virus-bearing cometary-bolide
bombardment events. A second focus is the remarkable evolution of
intelligent complexity (Cephalopods) culminating in the emergence of the
Octopus. A third focus concerns the micro-organism fossil evidence
contained within meteorites as well as the detection in the upper
atmosphere of apparent incoming life-bearing particles from space. In our
view the totality of the multifactorial data and critical analyses
assembled by Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe and their many colleagues
since the 1960s leads to a very plausible conclusion – life may have been
seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth
allowed it to flourish (about or just before 4.1 Billion years ago); and
living organisms such as space-resistant and space-hardy bacteria, viruses,
more complex eukaryotic cells, fertilised ova and seeds have been
continuously delivered ever since to Earth so being one important driver of
further terrestrial evolution which has resulted in considerable genetic
diversity and which has led to the emergence of mankind.