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The Six-Step Cycle
At its methodological core, APH is not just narrative but science in motion. It
follows a Six-Step Cycle:
Beacon → Hypothesis → Proxy → Prediction → Test → Falsifier.
Beacons — orienting metaphors glimpsed in Plato’s cave — guide inquiry toward
thresholds that recur in human reflection. These are: clay (matter prepared but
unanimated), names (abstraction and language), spirit (imagination awakened), and
trust (moral accountability). They are not doctrines, but universal markers: the
substrate, the code, the interior light, and the social contract. These thresholds
provide waypoints for testable hypotheses, which are then anchored to fossils,
genomes, and artifacts. In this way, APH remains accountable to science while
drawing upon insights that point beyond the shadows of the cave.
A Third Path
Where gradualist models smooth over the rupture, and revolutionary accounts
admit the break but lack a cause, APH provides both mechanism and meaning. It
bridges the language of science with guiding principles of selection, refinement,
infusion, and descent. Its predictions align with genomic timelines, archaeological
thresholds, and demographic transitions. APH shows not only what happened, but
why it happened once, and why it ignited globally.
This book presents APH not as one hypothesis among many, but as the only
framework capable of resolving the paradox of human origins. It is a narrative that
transforms clay into consciousness, bodies into minds, and fragments into a
coherent story. To trace the human origins timeline — to see where we came from
and why we are here — the path forward begins with the Adam Paradox.