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Guide to the Chapters
Part IV — Synchrony: When Lines Converge
All evidence erupts together.
Chapter 11. Archaeology in Lockstep
Cave art, ornaments, and ritual burials appear worldwide around the same
narrow window. Synchrony across continents suggests a global ignition.
Chapter 12. People Numbers and Social Nets
Without symbols, groups collapse beyond ~150 members (Dunbar’s number).
With symbols, cooperation scales to thousands. This chapter shows how
symbols solved the problem of trust.
Chapter 13. Language, Myth, and Ritual That Last
Language allowed memory, myth gave meaning, ritual bound groups. Sparks
became enduring flames once traditions could be passed reliably.
Chapter 14. Cognitive Revolution
The leap from silence to symphony: symbolic cognition stabilized, and
humanity became the storytelling species.
Chapter 15. World Positions and the Cognitive Revolution
Surveys how global institutions narrate human origins — gradualist in
Cambridge, continuity in Sydney, variability in Washington. Each misses the
paradox: anatomy without mind.
This part demonstrates that ignition was not local or random. It was global,
synchronous, and transformative.
Part V — Making It Testable
A hypothesis must risk failure.
Chapter 16. From Beacon to Proxy
Qur
ʾānic metaphors act as beacons. Science must translate them into proxies
— measurable traces in genomes, fossils, and artifacts.
Chapter 17. Predictions You Can Check Now
Lays out predictions: selective sweeps in cognition-linked loci ~70kya,
clustered symbolic sites, and demographic expansions.
Chapter 18. Falsifiers (What Would Change My Mind)
Lists possible falsifiers: continuous symbolism before 150kya, parallel
ignitions in Neanderthals, or mismatch between Qur
ʾānic beacons and data.
APH lives by its risks.
Here APH proves itself as a testable scientific wager, not just a narrative.