The 12th Planet

The 12th Planet
Zecharia Sitchin, author

Avon Books, publisher
© 1976

In whose image was Adam made? . . .

Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed revealing the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago -- and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species . . . called Man.

The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's controversial "Earth Chronicles" series -- arevolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers.

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Book excerpt:

"The Endless Beginning"
Of the evidence that we have amassed to support our conclusions, exhibit number one is Man himself. In many ways, modern man -- Homo sapiens -- is a stranger to Earth.

12th planet's orbit Ever since Charles Darwin shocked the scholars and theologians of his time with the evidence of evolution, life on Earth has been traced through Man and the primates, mammals, and vertebrates, and backward through ever-lower life forms to the point, billions of years ago, at which life is presumed to have begun.

But having reached these beginnings and having begun to contemplate the probablities of life elsewhere in our solar system and beyond, the scholars have become uneasy about life on Earth: somehow, it does not belong here. If it began through a series of spontaneous chemical reactions, why does life on Earth have but a single source, and not a multitude of chance sources? And why does all living matter on Earth contain too little of the chemical elements that abound on Earth, and too much of those that are rare on our planet?

Was life, then, imported to Earth from elsewhere?