Stories and speculations about human origin are always fascinating. Ever since Darwin. " Origin of Species ", published in the middle of the 19th century, was truly one of those real breakthroughs in scientific thought. However, even though it is widely accepted by the mainstream and to date no alternative theory exists, if we disregard religion, that is, the theory of evolution is not complete. In it's core, Darwin's natural selection of life is 'only' describing the evolution as a process. How life adapts to changes. Trials and errors of survival of species. The entanglement of life and environment. What happens if one species collides with another. But the origin is something entirely else. No valued theory is anywhere on the horizon. What happened at the very beginning is still a mystery. We just ... don't know. Hence... the stories and speculations. This October, my reading time has been reserved for two books about human origin. Coincidentally, t...