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Conclusion: Sparks Prove Readiness, Not Ignition
Before 70,000 years ago, humans experimented with symbolism. They painted
with ochre, wore beads, engraved designs. These sparks prove the capacity for
abstraction was already present. But the sparks did not endure.
Ian Tattersall captures the tension:
“Large brains were around for a long time
before being put to symbolic use. The sparks show potential, but not yet the
qualitative leap” (Tattersall, 2012, p. 191).
Thus, the paradox deepens: the body was ready, the brain was large, the sparks
appeared—but the ignition had not yet occurred.
Bridge to Part II
The silence of continuity raises the key question: what was silently preparing
humanity during this long plateau? Why did sparks fail for 200,000 years, then
suddenly succeed?
Part II turns to that hidden preparation: the ready genome (salsāl ka-l-
fakhkhār), the brain’s architecture, and the environmental crucibles that made
ignition possible