Role of the Y Chromosome in Human Cognition: A Literature Review
A review synthesizing evidence on how the Y chromosome influences human cognition, focusing on neurodevelopmental disorders, specific genes, brain structure, and evolutionary context.
Research Articles
The Logos and the Serpent: Mythic Evolution of Self-Awareness
Exploring the evolution of self awareness through Genesis, John's Logos, Gnosticism, and sacrificial myths, linking the Edenic serpent to Christ and the birth of the conscious self.
Eve Theory of Consciousness: Solving the Wallace Problem of Human Cognition
A comprehensive, evidence-driven defence of the [Eve Theory](https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v3) as the only evolutionary route to recursive self-awareness and language (i.e. the Wallace Problem).
Human Intelligence: 50,000 Years Is Plenty — A Breeder’s-Equation Reality Check
Why the blank-slate claim that cognition hasn't evolved since the Upper Palaeolithic fails basic population genetics—and what ancient DNA now shows.
The Narrative Self: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review
A comprehensive review exploring the concept of the 'narrative self' across philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and literary theory.
Neheb-Ka, Binder of Souls
Neheb-Ka, the Egyptian serpent god, and the language of harnessing souls: a SnakeCult reading of ka, initiation, and the birth of selfhood.
Arowanas Are Cousins, 50 Million Years Apart
The Amazon and Australian arowanas split about 50 million years ago across a forested Antarctica. The Asian arowana is the harder puzzle.
Contra d’Huy on the African Root of World Mythology
A global myth is not an African fossil. Why d’Huy’s roots beg the question, and Ice Age Europe offers a better home for the bullroarer complex.
Modernity Has No Creation Myth
Modernity has genealogy but no creation myth. EToC reunites Darwinian continuity with the mythic birth of the reflective human self.
The Bullroarer Atlas: Mapping a Thousand Attestations of the World’s Strangest Instrument
An interactive world atlas of 1,200+ bullroarer records reveals a sacred-to-toy gradient, a thin post-Ice Age archaeological record, and a snake where the wood survives.
