"James P. Hogan - Giants 1 - Inherit The Stars" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hogan James P)

The only alternative, then, was that Charlie came from somewhere else.
Clearly this could not be the Moon itself: It was too small to have retained
an atmosphere anywhere near long enough for life to have started at all, let
alone reach an advanced level -- and of course, his spacesuit showed he was
just as much an alien there as was man.
That only left some other planet. The problem here lay in Charlie's
undoubted human form, which Caldwell had stressed although he hadn't elected
to go into detail. Hunt knew that the process of natural evolution was
accepted as occurring through selection, over a long period, from a purely
random series of genetic mutations. All the established rules and principles
dictated that the appearance of two identical end products from two completely
isolated families of evolution, unfolding independently in different corners
of the universe, just couldn't happen. Hence, if Charlie came from somewhere
else, a whole branch of accepted scientific theory would come crashing down in
ruins. So -- Charlie couldn't possibly have come from Earth. Neither could he
possibly have come from anywhere else. Therefore, Charlie couldn't exist. But
he did.
 Hunt whistled silently to himself as the full implications of the thing
began to dawn on him. There was enough here to keep the whole scientific world
arguing for decades.

Inside the Westwood Biological Institute, Caldwell, Lyn Garland, Hunt,
and Gray were met by a Professor Christian Danchekker. The Englishmen
recognized him, since Caldwell had introduced them earlier by vi-phone. On
their way to the laboratory section of the institute, Danchekker briefed them
further.
In view of its age, the body was in an excellent state of preservation.
This was due to the environment in which it had been found -- a germ-free hard
vacuum and an abnormally low temperature sustained, even at Lunar noon, by the
insulating mass of the surrounding rock. These conditions had prevented any
onset of bacterial decay of the soft tissues. No rupture had been found in the
spacesuit. So the currently favored theory regarding cause of death was that a
failure in the life-support system had resulted in a sudden fall in
temperature. The body had undergone deep freezing in a short space of time
with a consequent abrupt cessation of metabolic processes; ice crystals,
formed from body fluids, had caused widespread laceration of cell membranes.
In the course of time most of the lighter substances had sublimed, mainly from
the outer layers, to leave behind a blackened, shriveled, natural kind of
mummy. The most seriously affected parts were the eyes, which, composed for
the most part of fluids, had collapsed completely, leaving just a few flaky
remnants in their sockets.
A major problem was the extreme fragility of the remains, which made any
attempt at detailed examination next to impossible. Already the body had
undergone some irreparable damage in the course of being transported to Earth
and in the removal of the spacesuit; only the body's being frozen solid during
these operations had prevented the situation from being even worse. That was
when somebody had thought of Felix Borlan at IDCC and an instrument being
developed in England that could display the insides of things. The result had
been Caldwell's visit to Portland.
Inside the first laboratory it was dark. Researchers were using