At least our genes are. The Nature website reports that
establishing the age of each mutation in contemporary human
populations is important to fully understand our evolutionary
history and will help to us to develop new medicines for
diseases caused by genes. Many of these mutations have only
recently arisen--approximately 73% of all of them (and 86% of
the ones that cause disease) have arisen in the past
5,000-10,000 years, which sounds like a long time, but is a
blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. Also, people of European
American ancestry have an excess of these harmful gene variants
compared to African Americans, due to the Out-of-Africa
dispersal of homo sapiens millions of years ago. Here's an idea:
Could some of us have a genetic propensity to encounter the
Visitors? That would make them a sort of hybrid species (NOTE:
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