The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? (Paperback)

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The Starchild Skull chronicles eight-years of scientific testing of a highly unusual human-like skull. Collectively, that testing strongly indicates the skull is not entirely human. This is one of the most important stories in the world right now, literally history in the making.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Bell Lap Books Inc. (July 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979388147
• ISBN-13: 978-0979388149
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #193,342 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as revolutionary as Darwin's "Origin of the Species", September 12, 2007

By	Ralph Hollister (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's a great book. Imagine yourself in Europe 1,000 years ago and you found photos of the Earth with the Moon in the background as taken from the space shuttle and you had the wisdom and open-mindedness to realize what they were. Now imagine trying to get anyone to accept what we all know now as the simple truth. Since those times certainly many things have changed, but a great many have stayed the same. This book chronicles Lloyd Pye's near decade of struggles to solve the mystery of this strange skull that he has become convinced is of an extraterrestial/human hybrid and the incredible difficulty he has had even getting simple tests done and trying to get out the truth without getting heckled and ridiculed. If nothing else, this story is a lesson in how the scientific community circles its wagons in the face of something that could contradict accepted dogma. But it's much more than that. I didn't think there was anything to this business prior to reading the book, but I must admit I am now, like Lloyd Pye, very anxious to find out all there is to know about this skull. This book shoud end to be continued... The final, and no doubt most important test involves the nuclear DNA and won't likely be done for several years. In case you're wondering why it will take so long, the technique for sequencing human DNA didn't work! The mitochondrial DNA showed the mother to be human; the nuclear DNA (includes the father's), however is not! A new process has been developed to read Neanderthal DNA (it's not specie specific) but it is only done at one lab and there is a waiting list. Read the book and I think you too will see why this could be one ot the greatest scientific discoveries ever.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starchild Review by a contributor, August 25, 2007

By	T. Robinson "Dr. T. Robinson" (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a medical doctor who conducted research on the Starchild skull for two years in 2000-2001, I can assure the reader that this skull is not only real, but that it is perhaps the most fascinating enigma that I have ever had the opportunity to conduct research upon. Lloyd's enthusiasm despite personal financial difficulties has been outstanding, and he has written a very readable, accurate, truthful and entertaining account of this most mysterious relic. I can only hope that, one day in the not too distant future, LLoyd will be writing a second edition when further research gives us the definitive answer to what the skull really is. Dr.T.Robinson

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Weird Relic - a Real Challenge to Science, August 8, 2007

By	Mr Cheops (England) - See all my reviews

I am not normally moved to write book reviews, but occasionally a book comes along that catches the attention and demands support. With The Starchild Skull, Lloyd Pye has not only produced a riveting page-turner (I consumed every word in just two sittings) but also a serious case study of one of the weirdest relics ever known to science. I will confess immediately that I know Lloyd personally and can vouchsafe his integrity. But more important perhaps, I have actually met the so-called Starchild - and can speak for its authenticity! So don't let anyone kid you - and I'm sure they'll try - that Lloyd is in this for the money or the Starchild is a hoax. The author is genuine and the Skull is for real. And if you think that Mr Pye must be a bit weird for sacrificing eight years of his life and pushing himself to the edge of bankruptcy to find out whether this thing is human or alien, or a combination of both, then know this - the Skull itself is infinitely weirder than you can possibly imagine. In fact, the more one studies it, with all the cutting edge tools of modern laboratories, the more and more weird it gets. But the triumph of this book, and what makes it a potential bestseller, is the way Lloyd deftly handles the complex science so that it never comes between the reader and the reading experience. So the Starchild Skull becomes a beautiful, engrossing, warm, and often humorous, account of Lloyd's up hill and down dale encounters with alternative researchers whose colourful lives are a wonder to behold and mainstream scientists who defend at all costs their cosy world view of human evolution. Which brings us to the nub of the story - is the Skull a unique human mutation, or is it evidence that a higher intelligence once visited the Earth and perhaps interbred with man? Well the only way to know for sure - and there are enough anomalies here to make it worthwhile - is to subject the Skull to one more round of tests using an expensive dna recovery technique recently developed for the Neandertals. Which could be possible during the next few years IF we spread the word wide enough so that the right people put their weight and willpower behind it, to make it so. In summary, the Starchild Skull is one of the weirdest relics ever known to science, but more scientists need to find out about it. And if that doesn't happen, now that Lloyd has written this highly readable and engaging account of it, that would indeed be... Weird!