[Avodah] AoU / evolution of man m'makom

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/29/2013 12:18 PM, M Cohen wrote:
> wrt previous "evolution of man" discussions on Avodah/Areivim, I don't know
> if this m'makom was previously mentioned.
>
> R Schwab (in Mayan Bais shoaiva on breshis 2'23) says explicitly that there
> were human like creatures alive before Adam who looked like pple, planted
> and harvested as pple do, could reproduce with Adam, etc, but did not have
> the neshama of Adam harishon.
>
> As I've mentioned previously, this approach still requires us to say that
> all these pple mysteriously died out somehow and the world is now only
> populated by Adam's descendants (all goyim are today are considered human,
> descendants of Adam, capable of converting and becoming Jewish, etc)
>    
Why?  If they could reproduce with us, who's to say that people today 
aren't descendants of both strains?

Incidentally, does R' Schwab give a source for this claim, or is it his 
svara?

Lisa