A stricter audit of the archaeological record that only counts true symbols-ritual burial and figurative art-and shunts beads, ochre crayon-shavings, and doodles to the kiddie table.

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.

A comprehensive exploration of African origin myths from West, Central, Southern, and North Africa, detailing the roles of supreme deities, mystical ancestors, and cultural heroes in creation stories.

Explore the hermetic-alchemical roots of early Mormon cosmology in John L. Brooke’s Bancroft Prize-winning book, The Refiner’s Fire.

Survey of speculative theories on pre-Columbian knowledge of the Americas and possible Medici foreknowledge.

An in-depth analysis of Mormonism’s esoteric roots under Joseph Smith and the doctrinal shifts produced by the 1844 succession crisis that elevated Brigham Young.

An exhaustive survey of legendary and historical figures who journeyed to Egypt to learn ancient mysteries, from Greek philosophers to religious leaders, showing how Jesus’s childhood sojourn fits into this longstanding tradition.

A deep dive into Y-chromosome haplogroup A00, the oldest known human paternal lineage. We explore its discovery, its shocking age, and the debate over whether it represents a ‘ghost’ archaic population or an ancient, isolated branch of Homo sapiens.

A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as a gene–culture coevolutionary process that produced recursive, self-referential attention, leading to a phase transition in human consciousness.