Story of American missionary killed by isolated island tribe overshadows a much bigger story: Is this ancient tribe in question the direct descendants of Adam and Eve?

Is the 'most isolated tribe on Earth' the closest living descendants of the first modern man to first emerge out of Africa?

By the time of publishing of this post, a lot of people will have already heard of the bizarre story spreading virally around the world of the extremely foolhardy 27-year-old American self-styled missionary, John Allen Chau, who was killed by what was described by the press as the "most isolated tribe in the world," when he naively tried to intrude into their society, after they gave him fair warning that he was not welcome onto their land, and convert them all to Christianity.

The foolish actions of self-styled American missionary, John Allen Chau, has
not only doomed himself, but may have doomed the fate of the Sentinelese as
the world will begin to realize the significance of who the Sentinelese are in
relation to the first modern men to migrate out of Africa, so scientists are bound
endanger the Sentinelese with more unnecessary contact with modern world

The extremely ancient and isolated tribe, known as the Sentinelese, are an indigenous people who inhabit the completely untouched and relatively unexplored North Sentinel Island (which is about the size of Manhattan Island) in the Bay of Bengal, which in turn is a part of the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Far be it from us to accuse the mainstream media of just falling into the same old trap of reporting another sensationalized story about the perils of the civilized world confronting a group of "savages" for clickbait, while missing the significance and much bigger picture of the much more important story right underneath their noses.

But that's exactly what they have predictably done, in the name of today's clickbait tabloid journalism that passes for legitimate news. The so-called mainstream press in its ever predictable thirst for tabloid news has once again chosen to focus on the much more insignificant story, à la Cannibal Holocaust, of a savage, primitive tribe murdering a naive, foolhardy, but well-meaning missionary on some warped "humanitarian" mission to save them from the excesses of their own hedonism.

But in falling into this very predictable yellow journalistic trap, the mainstream press has completely glossed over the much more significant story and revelation about the Sentinelese people, that has been kept a secret for some time now, about what may be regarded as the most significant anthropological and one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our time.

Migration routes of the first humans out of East Africa from the survivors after
the cataclysmic eruption of the super-volcano Lake Toba some 70,000 years ago

You see, the ancestors of the Sentinelese, along with the other indigenous tribes of the Andaman islands, are thought to have originally migrated to the remote Indian chain of islands from East Africa some 60,000 to 75,000 years ago when extreme climate change from a glacial period of the last Ice Age began to once again overtake the entire globe.

That means that wholly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers were still alive and well, roaming the earth during the time that Sentinelese established their final homeland in the Bay of Bengal, and infectious diseases such as influenza, measles, and small pox hadn't even come into existence yet to plague humanity. That theory of their origins would even pre-date the emergence of Cro-Magnon man in Europe some 45,000 to 15,000 years ago.

That's how ancient this tribe is, and from the scientific evidence, they haven't changed all that much in all that time because of their self-imposed and geographical isolation from the rest of the world some 60,000 years ago.

The Sentinelese is so old that it is believed they even pre-date cavemen

The reason why many anthropologists believe the tribes people of the Andaman islands come from the great migration out of Africa is because they much more closely resemble African pygmies than any other indigenous Asiatic people that have been studied by anthropologists and geneticists.

Their culture is so ancient that their way of life harks back to man's early stage of human development when civilization only consisted of hunter-gathers from the stone-age, with no known form of agriculture and primitive weapons made of wooden bows and arrows.

Their technological advancement may even pre-date the discovery of fire by man. It is as if they have been frozen in time for eons due to their remote and complete isolation from the rest of the world.

While other indigenous tribes of the Andaman islands have made contact with one another and with the civilized world over their long existence, what sets the Sentinelese apart from all of the rest is that they appear to have always, throughout their entire history, violently rejected any contact with anyone outside their society, including from the other neighboring indigenous tribes.

In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, a Sentinelese warrior shoots at an Indian helicopter
with a bow and arrow, possibly thinking the helicopter is some great flying demon or
bird, but not associating it with human beings from the modern world

In fact, their language is not even remotely remotely recognizable or similar to the other local tribes in the region which would give credence to past interactions and mixing of tribal blood from the neighboring tribes.

Thus, inbreeding within this one isolated tribe, over thousands of years, might have preserved what may be the purest ancestral DNA bloodline that the original "Eden" pod of migrants had from East Africa when modern man first set out to conquer the world some 60,000 years ago.

This fact, if it has always been this way for the entire existence of the Sentinelese, would have isolated their bloodline (and by that same reasoning their DNA) over eons, leaving their DNA largely unchanged and making them the purest and likely the most untainted direct descendants of the first migrants that emerged out of East Africa dating back some 60,000 years ago.

And because inbreeding from their self-imposed isolation would likely preserve their genetic make-up, that would make this tribe the direct descendants of Adam and Eve, as we know them.

This is important because that small band of early modern man, from East Africa some 75,000 years ago, only numbered around a thousand total individuals at the time and is, therefore, thought to be the "Eden" colony of all mankind today, from which all mankind today has descended from.

The only contact with the outside that didn't end in a hostile confrontation with
the Sentinelese was in 1991 when an Indian expedition brought the tribe coconuts

This is what scientists believe because a key global cataclysmic event took place some 75,000 years ago that nearly wiped out all of mankind in one fell swoop.

That "Great Dying" event was the eruption of a super-volcano, Mount Toba, in Northern Sumatra that brought on a devastating glaciation period of the last Ice Age. Today, the collapsed caldera of the super-volcano is better known as Lake Toba.

While many species of hominids, including Homo sapiens, were present all over the globe before the great eruption, it is believed the super-volcano Toba created a mass extinction event, wiping out most of mankind, including many hominid species, other than Homo sapiens, off the face of the Earth.

This catastrophic event some 75,000 years ago hit the reset button on the history of mankind and set the stage for its rebirth through an evolutionary bottleneck, where it is believed that only about a thousand individuals from the Homo sapien species in East Africa (i.e., the so-called "Eden" colony) survived the great Toba extinction event.

Self-styled American missionary, John Allen Chau, foolishly wanted to convert
the most isolated tribe in the world to Christianity, despite knowing it was
against Indian law to disturb the indigenous tribe in any way

Other pods of hominid species are thought to have survived for a time after the "Great Dying"—most notable among them are the Neanderthals in Europe—but we know that all but one species, the Homo sapiens, survived to the present day, and every other hominid species has since gone extinct.

Therefore, all humans on Earth today are thought to be descendants from that very small pod of a thousand surviving individuals from the so-called "Eden" colony in East Africa some 75,000 years ago.

Thus, you can see why the Sentinelese people are so significant to science. They may be purest and most untainted living bloodline to the original Adam and Eve colony before they emerged out of the biblical paradise of Eden some 60,000 to 75,000 years ago.

Apart from some evolutionary selective pressures, such as Island dwarfism, over their long existence on the North Sentinel island, and possible mixing of DNA with other tribes during the great migration out of Africa by their ancestors, the isolation and subsequent inbreeding of the Sentinelese tribe would no doubt preserve a great deal of the genetic information from all modern man's common ancestors.

And this fact alone may be the biggest threat now to the survival of the Sentinelese, because now that everyone around the world knows about their story, the attention of the news headlines around the world will, no doubt, brings others—especially scientists and anthropologists—to make contact with and study the tribe, up close and personal.

The indigenous people of the Andaman islands are thought to be descendants
from a migratory band of East African from 60,000 - 75,000 years ago

The temptation of find out the truth about our past through this living "missing link" is simply too irresistible for any credible scientist to ignore, and this is not a secret that can be kept under wraps any longer, thanks to the press.

No doubt, there are very ambitious scientists out there who have already realized the significance of the Sentinelese people to science and are already petitioning the Indian government, as we speak, to make contact with them again, so that their culture, language, and even their very genetic material can be studied under the microscope.

Because they have no natural immunity to any modern-day infectious diseases, no doubt they can be wiped off the face of the Earth from any potential contact with the modern world.

Thanks to the tragic story of one very naive and fool-hardy American missionary who set out to conquer one of the last isolated primitive tribes on Earth, the very survival of an ancient, isolated people who have survived 60,000 years without any significant intrusion from the modern world may again be truly be in jeopardy of becoming extinct.

Sources:

• Vice: Police Fear Giving the Flu to the Tribe that Killed an American Missionary (11/23/18)
• TheWeek: Clash of civilisations: A Sentinelese ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ (11/23/18)
• Daily Mail: American missionary believed God had 'called' him to convert tribe that shot him dead with arrows and spent years planning to get to their remote island as Indian police work out how to retrieve body (11/21/18)