Consider the Chicken
Weighing archaeological, genetic, and historical evidence for whether chickens reached the Americas before Columbus.
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
Hallucinogenic Atlas: A Continental Census of Ancient Entheogens
Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.
If Social Intelligence Made Us Human, Women Were Human First
There Must Have Been an Eve Who First Grokked the Human Condition
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.