Human Evolution - Research Articles

A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.

A selection-aware re-read of human population trees and divergence times if cognition faced strong selection in the last 50,000 years.

How natural selection and admixture distort phylogenetic trees, why human genomes are mosaics, and what to use instead.

Ancient DNA shows a 10,000-year purge of schizophrenia risk in Europe—and lines up uncannily with the Eve Theory of Consciousness.

Fresh interdisciplinary evidence – from prehistoric rituals and myth to genes and neurochemistry – supports the Eve Theory of Consciousness, which posits women-led serpent venom rites ignited human self-awareness.

Exploring how geneticist David Reich might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness – a bold hypothesis that human self-awareness emerged culturally and only later became encoded in our genes.

How a late Upper-Pleistocene spark of self awareness spread memetically, rewired our genome, and solved the Sapient Paradox.

A comprehensive survey of the earliest complex tools made by early humans, from hafted axes and spears to bows, woodworking implements, and symbolic artifacts, examining archaeological evidence and scholarly debates.

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.