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There's a book with Cawl where he talks to a Ctan. The Ctan looks at him and tells him that humans have the touch of the Old Ones on them. By which I infer that the Ctan at least thinks the Old ones have meddled in our evolution.

 LumenPraebeo wrote:

 argonak wrote:
There's a book with Cawl where he talks to a Ctan. The Ctan looks at him and tells him that humans have the touch of the Old Ones on them. By which I infer that the Ctan at least thinks the Old ones have meddled in our evolution.

Which book is that?

https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/belisarius-cawl-the-great-work-ebook-2019.html

I thought it was a very enjoyable book.

I believe the war in heaven took place 60 million years in the past. At that point humanity’s ancestors looked like tree squirrels.

The only way the old one connection makes sense is if some old one survived and fiddled with us relatively recently. Maybe at the near extinction event about a million years ago. Or More likely at the other one about 70,000 years ago, when super volcano toba almost wiped us out.

At that point there were between 40 and 1000 humans left. That would be an easy population size to tinker with, and ensure the changes last. Maybe the interloping old one set off the toba eruption intentionally.