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Conclusion: Mathematical and Mechanistic Collapse of the
Evolutionary Account
The ignition of symbolic cognition required multiple coordinated genomic
switches — FOXP2, HAR1, SRGAP2C, ARHGAP11B, NOTCH2NL, and
many others. Modern lab results confirm their mechanistic roles in cortical
development, neural plasticity, and speech regulation. Yet when treated
probabilistically, the likelihood of their alignment by random mutation and
selection within a narrow synchrony window collapses to effectively zero.
This leaves a stark conclusion:
Demography, climate, and cultural feedback explain spread and
persistence.
But only a directed or coordinated regulatory activation event can explain
ignition.
The mathematics, the laboratory evidence, and the archaeological record
converge on the same point: unguided evolutionary convergence cannot
account for the emergence of symbolic cognition.
