When Trees Lie: Selection, Admixture, and the Myth of a Single Ancestry
How natural selection and admixture distort phylogenetic trees, why human genomes are mosaics, and what to use instead.
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When Consciousness Is Under Selection: How Recent Cognition Selection Would Warp Human History Models
A selection-aware re-read of human population trees and divergence times if cognition faced strong selection in the last 50,000 years.
Basal Eurasian as a Mirage: A Steelman Case for “Ghost Ancestry” as Selection Artifact
A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.
Ancient DNA Shows Schizophrenia Risk Purged Over 10,000 Years
Ancient DNA shows a 10,000-year purge of schizophrenia risk in Europe—and lines up uncannily with the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
New Evidence Bolstering 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.
Eve Theory of Consciousness – Through David Reich’s Eyes
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.
Awakening Eve: How Self-Knowledge Rewired the Human Mind
How a late Upper-Pleistocene spark of self awareness spread memetically, rewired our genome, and solved the Sapient Paradox.
Earliest Complex Tools of the Genus Homo
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.
When Symbols Get Real: The First Hard Evidence for Homo sapiens Symbolic Thought
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.
