Where did people come from on Earth? They used to say that work turned a monkey into a man. Nowadays it is increasingly believed that life in general and intelligence in particular came to our planet from space. Thus, there is no need to specifically look for aliens: they are us. The only question is: did anyone control the process of development of life on Earth, and what did it look like? This is exactly what he talks about in his book “Aliens? They are already here!!!" Maxim Yablokov, already known to our readers for his first book on the same topic, “We Are All Aliens?!”