Anthropologist Paul Schebesta’s 1936 work, Revisiting My Pygmy Hosts, offers a window into the creation myths and belief systems of the Efe pygmies of the Congo. Their explanation of the original sin …

Polls are an under-used Substack tool, particularly when a post makes a specific argument. Less than 1% of people who read an article will comment, and those who do usually have strong opinions. Polls…

Books about human evolution often follow the format:

Think of this post as a study group on Crecganford’s recent mythological analysis. I encourage you to watch the 39-minute video and comment. I’ve mentioned Crecganford a couple of times on the blog. H…

This article is a change of pace. Instead of endless footnotes and statistical arguments, I’ll let Anatolian folklore do the talking. The most obvious rejoinder to the snake-venom-as-entheogen hypothe…

If I follow this trajectory, by next year my titles will be full paragraphs. For those who missed the chatbot piece, I’ve been hanging out on the SenpAI Discord server to discuss the latest in LLM the…

I recently attended LessOnline, a rationalist/blogger conference where I presented on the Snake Cult. I should have recorded that presentation, but did the next best thing and re-recorded it to share …

Dr. Thacker returns to Vectors of Mind for a deep discussion about human evolution and consciousness. Stetson, who holds a PhD in genetics with expertise in cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders, w…

It’s been long enough since the last post that some readers have reached out. I’ve been enjoying the holiday season and have a backlog of content for the blog. That includes a long piece (EToC v3.0), …

The Eve Theory of Consciousness proposes that self-awareness was discovered by women and spread memetically. To make this case I draw on linguistics, archeology, pharmacology, genetics, anthropology, …