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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
It might make more "sense" if it's a religious belief. As in humans are reincarnated aliens. That would sidestep the biological impossibilities of being literal descendants.
It would be interesting if we just happen to be psychologically similar to one of the alien species. Only they and we have music or laughter, for example.
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I forgot to add in that because of a weird convergent evolution (manipulated by a precursor species for their own reasons) we and they are genetically the same species. I throw in the precursors as a fig leaf of reality. Being half asleep when I wrote the piece causes many flaws.
Still, the idea of humans as reincarnated aliens, or at least held to be so by an alien faith, works. I remember a Sci Fi novel where the dominant alien overlords held that unworthy members of their species were reincarnated as humans.