Arowanas Are Cousins, 50 Million Years Apart
The Amazon and Australian arowanas split about 50 million years ago across a forested Antarctica. The Asian arowana is the harder puzzle.
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The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
Holocene Minds on Hard Mode: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and the Birth of Consciousness
Using ancient DNA and polygenic scores to imagine schizophrenia, bipolar, intelligence, and consciousness in early Holocene Europe through the Eve Theory lens.
The Y-Chromosome Bottleneck and the Bronze Age Mind: Why So Many Male Lines Disappeared
Why Y-chromosome diversity collapsed 7,000-5,000 years ago, what patrilineal clan competition explains, and what it implies for the Bronze Age mind.
Ten Papers that Push the Eve Theory of Consciousness Toward Science
Ten recent genetics and neuroscience papers that quietly support the Eve Theory of Consciousness: selection on language, psychosis, and the human self.
Was Schizophrenia Once Normal? Psychosis, Language, and the Evolution of the Self
Explores whether schizophrenia-like states were once common, connecting psychosis, language, ancient DNA, and the evolution of consciousness.
Against the Myth of the Ancient, Finished Self: Why “We Haven’t Changed in 50,000 Years” Is Obviously False
Ancient DNA, polygenic scores, and psychiatric genetics all say the human mind has evolved dramatically since the Ice Age—contra the 50,000-years myth.
Golden Man as Control System: Cybernetics Before the Self
Before introspective consciousness, humans were control systems without a narrative self. This essay reconstructs Golden Man using cybernetics, animal cognition, and Eve Theory of Consciousness.
Nephilim, Fallen Angels, and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
A speculative exploration of ancient 'fallen angel' myths through the Eve Theory of Consciousness, suggesting a bygone age when men lacked modern self-awareness while women led the way.
The Incest Taboo as a Decisive Human Technology
A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.
Human Self-Domestication: Major Lines of Evidence and Theory
Surveying genetic, anatomical, and cultural evidence that humans tamed themselves through "survival of the friendliest."
Reconciling Darwin and Genesis: A Hegelian Synthesis of Evolution and Myth
Integrating Darwinian evolution with ancient creation myths to trace the physical and psychological origins of humanity.
The Snake Cult of Consciousness: Science and Western Esotericism Converge
Snake Cult of Consciousness weaves neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and Western mystical symbolism into a hypothesis on the origins of human self-awareness.
Eve Theory of Consciousness v4
A comprehensive interdisciplinary theory proposing that human consciousness originated as a cultural invention in prehistoric times, likely pioneered by women and spread through ritual and language.
Holocene Selection on Human Intelligence: A 50,000-Year Reality Check
Ancient DNA and quantitative-genetic models reveal ongoing selection on human cognitive traits throughout the Holocene.
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.
The X Chromosome and Human Cognition
A comprehensive review of how the X chromosome influences human brain development, cognitive function, and neurological disorders.
X Chromosome and Higher-Order Cognition
How X-linked gene dosage, inactivation escape, and imprinting sculpt human brain development, intelligence, and social behavior.
12 Mysteries Solved by the Eve Theory of Consciousness
Systematic audit of 12 evolutionary, archaeological and mythic puzzles and how the Eve Theory of Consciousness purports to solve them.
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.