Originally Posted by
The Bushranger
[Talnissa's]
"I'm not the one who came up with the idea. And I probably could have explained it a little better." Kara blushes. "The Alterans were very near-human - we're genetically compatible with them, even - and the theory is that it was early humans who were 'harvested', as it were, to become the mammalian half of the Wraith, whereas later, the theory goes, we were 'upgraded' by the Alterans ourselves. Some theories are that the Neanderthal race, an early hominid and one of the last developments of the hominid genetic tree before Homo sapiens, would have become the dominant species on our planet had the Alterans not uplifted some of them."