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Research Articles
The Serpent’s Gift: Mythic Echoes of an Ancient Consciousness Cult
How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.
X Chromosome And Cognition
How recent sweeps, dosage compensation, and X-linked disorders reveal the chromosome's outsized role in human brain evolution and sex-biased cognition.
Darwin on Human Evolution: Short Timelines and Gene-Culture Interaction
Darwin's views on the rapid pace of human evolution, driven by gene-culture interaction, reputation, language, and social institutions.
Global Archaeological Appearances and Theoretical Explanations of the Swastika
Survey of the swastika's ancient global presence and theories (diffusion vs. independent invention) explaining its origins and spread.
Echoes of a Holocene Eden: Proto-Myths of Fall and Creation across Eurasia
Comparative analysis of Eurasian 'fall from grace' myths suggesting a common proto-myth originating in the Paleolithic or early Holocene.
The Sapient Paradox: A Deep Dive into the Archaeological and Genetic Evidence
A comprehensive analysis of the Sapient Paradox, synthesizing archaeological findings (tools, art, burials) with paleogenetics (brain-related gene sweeps, population bottlenecks) to evaluate theories for the delayed emergence of behavioral …
Cosmic Herakles — Serpent of Time, Hero of Eden
From Göbekli Tepe initiation lore to Orphic world-egg cosmology, tracing Herakles' twin careers as Adamic hero and winged time-serpent.
Zeus Drakôn — Serpent, Swallower, World-Renewer
Snake-shaped Zeus in chthonic cults, Orphic theogony, and Stoic ekpyrosis, mapped onto the Herakles–Dionysus macro-/micro-myth.
More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief
Discussing Bernardo Katrup's Analytic Idealism
