Personality’s Genetic Signal Points to the Brain
AlphaGenome connects all ten leading GFP associations to neural RNA or splicing, with BMAL1 linking the strongest region to learning and memory.
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
The Olmec Mysteries and the Serpent Before Quetzalcoatl
What remains mysterious about the Olmecs, and why their bird-serpent is probably an ancestor of the later Quetzalcoatl tradition.
Kiln Mother Goes East
Venus figurines and East Asian pottery share a deeper history: clay, fire, and the transmission of a craft that learned to make bodies before bowls.
The Same Hand
A literary science-fiction novella about a forensic handwriting machine, a forger with a tremor, and the first hand that ever drew itself.
The Inside of the Glove
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that teaches people to unlearn, and the human discovery it cannot put down.
Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and the faint traces they might have left.
The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
Africa’s Inherited Worlds
The Hamitic hypothesis as cultural diffusion: how imported livelihoods, scriptures, and learned traditions became foundations of African cultures.
A Sufficient Explanation
An original science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, the hunger for absolution, and a machine built to explain us.
The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman’s estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.