A deep dive into the similarities and differences between animal and human memory, exploring procedural, semantic, and episodic-like memory across species and what makes human autobiographical memory unique.
How Witzel, Berezkin, Le Quellec, and d’Huy turn human migrations into myth origins—and why a global story needs its own historical evidence.
An interactive myth lab. Change the model, move the root, and explore what comparative mythology can—and cannot—tell us about origins.
Munson named the pearl millet diffusion route in 1976. The oldest domesticated grain turned up there in 2011, weakening the independent-invention case.
Cutler’s EToC and Michael Levin’s theory of minds illuminate the human transition in the Fall, emergence, and ancestral transformation.
Hiva Oa's tiki and Rapa Nui's moai share a striking hand gesture—and a Polynesian history illuminated by oral tradition, archaeology, and DNA.
From Mictlan to the River of the Dead, American myths cast serpents as bridges through death, ancestry, transformation, and rebirth.
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
Niuheliang's Goddess Temple and stepped earth-and-stone altar mound are the best candidate for the Neolithic cult behind Nüwa, China's ancestral mother and creator.
Mercury vapor over the First Emperor's mound points to a sealed chamber, and Qin's painted warriors show how fast exposure could destroy what survives inside.
