Human Self-Domestication: Major Lines of Evidence and Theory
Surveying genetic, anatomical, and cultural evidence that humans tamed themselves through “survival of the friendliest.”
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
The Primordial Matriarchy and the Gendered Evolution of Consciousness
Integrating Venus figurines, goddess myths, and X-chromosome sweeps to re-evaluate women’s possible leadership in early human culture.
The Bullroarer: A Global Marker of Cultural Diffusion and Male Initiation Ceremonies
How a simple whirled instrument traces the spread of male secret societies and ritual culture from the Late Paleolithic to the present.
Pronouns Across Africa: Shared Roots or Shared Contact?
Do the widespread 1sg n-/m- and 2sg b-/w- paradigms signal an African macro-family, or are they just the linguistic fingerprints of 12 000 years of contact?
Flood Myths Around the World: Why So Many Cultures Tell of a Great Flood
Why so many cultures tell of a great flood, how the flood-myth families are related, and why the deluge may remember humanity’s awakening.
Manly P Hall And The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
A deep exploration of how mystic philosopher Manly P. Hall might interpret the Eve Theory of Consciousness—the notion that human self-awareness (“I am”) arose relatively recently—by examining ancient …
Venom As Elixir Of Life
Why serpent venom microdosing sits at the root of alchemical, Daoist, and New‑Age quests for an elixir of life—and what that implies about early biotech.
Snake Cult of Consciousness and the Sapient Paradox
The Snake Cult of Consciousness reframes the Sapient Paradox: behavioral modernity emerged ~15 kya through memetic—not genetic—diffusion of selfhood.
Serpent Apple And The Snake Cult Of Consciousness
Why Genesis pairs a snake with an apple: a Paleolithic antivenom-and-vision ritual encoded in myth.
Enoch, Hermes Trismegistus, and Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses
Comparative analysis of Joseph Smith’s Enoch revelations and the Hermetic Poimandres vision, exploring the Enoch-Hermes tradition.