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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Did they?
"We believe the Zhell were Humans — perhaps the original Human population that took to the stars when Imperial Center was known as Notron."
―Mesh Burzon[src]
That doesn't sound like a definite statement, and it's dubious considering that the Zhell were sharing Coruscant with another and quite different intelligent species.
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Sounds kind of like the arguments among scholars in the late Imperial era of the Foundation novels, trying to use reason to figure out where humans came from. (And none of them had the correct world; the closest were a minority who thought humans might have originated on the planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B.) Perhaps your scientist has realized that none of the current theories regarding human origin have been properly tested yet, and seeks to track how genes have changed across the galaxy in order to find the homeworld.
I'm assuming that you're looking for your scientist character to have a ready reason to be traveling with this band of interstellar rogues and/or Jedi. Most high-tech scientific pursuits involve staying in one place, where your lab conditions can be carefully monitored; field research of one sort or another would really be the best reason to put an academic into harm's way.