There is a theory that Earthlings are the misfits of another planet brought/exiled here, and checked up on occasionally by the home planet.
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Had not heard that theory - interesting - I wrote something about the reason and origin of that idea without knowing about this.
I am a very senior citizen, and I heard about this theory decades ago. To me, it makes sense.
Like the penal colony origins of Australia?
The stories of Enki, within the Sumerian culture go this way.
Yes, we are actually Golgafrinchans.
They gathered up all the hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, middle men, and other useless types and dumped us here.
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy book “The restaurant at the end of the universe “, the Golgafrinchan ark fleet ship B
That is not a theory, it was a Twilight Zone episode.