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Table of Contents
The Adam Paradox Hypothesis (Second Edition)
Preface — From Hypothesis to Human Story
The Threshold Puzzle — Why modern bodies long preceded symbolic minds,
and why APH treats ignition as real, not illusion.
Guiding Metaphors — Clay, Names, Spirit, and Trust as recurring thresholds
of becoming human.
Scope and Method — APH defined by what it is and is not, its intended
audience, conventions, and humility in testing.
Part I — The Paradox in the Record
Lays out the puzzle: body first, mind later.
Chapter 1. The Long Silence, Then Fire ....... 1
Thesis— The contrast anatomical modernity without cognitive modernity, followed by
sudden ignition — is what I call The Adam Paradox.
Chapter 2. Bones Without Stories ....... 8
Fossils and brains: the hardware matured, but symbolic software was absent.
Chapter 3. Sparks That Fade ....... 16
Engraved ochre, beads, pigments: local symbolic episodes that vanish.
Part II — Preparing the Vessel: Readiness Before Ignition
Explores how a ready genome and environment set the stage.
Chapter 4. The Ready Genome (Salsāl ka-l-fakhkhār) ....... 22
Explores how a ready genome and environment set the stage.
Chapter 5. Brain Hardware vs. Cognitive Software ....... 31
Anatomy vs. regulatory genome: why structure ≠ symbolic mind.
Chapter 6. Climate Windows, Bottlenecks, and Roads Out ....... 39
How bottlenecks, Ice Age cycles, and dispersals set evolutionary pressure on the genome.