Charroux's Ancient Astronauts

Robert Charroux writes in Lost Worlds that his research "...leads not to the conclusion that our ancestors were apes, but that they were superior men..." and "...if some of our contemporaries claim to be descended from the ape I have no objection...". So what was the origin of man if not by Darwinian evolution? Charroux thinks "...our creation goes back an incalculable time and that the first man was certainly an extraterrestrial...". Read more about the 1960's/70's Ancient Astronauts theory on Wikipedia.