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Theosophists believed humanity started as jellyfish

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Helena Blavatsky proposed a complex evolution where early humans were gigantic, floating, translucent blobs that reproduced by budding. It is a wildly creative origin story that makes standard human biology look remarkably boring.

Theosophists believed humanity started as jellyfish
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