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Conclusion: The Vessel Without Spirit
By ~300,000 years ago, humanity carried:
Modern skeletons.
Modern-sized brains.
Advanced genetic scaffolds.
But without regulatory activation — FOXP2 tuning, HAR1 rewiring,
SRGAP2C prolonging, epigenetic fine-tuning — these brains did not produce
sustained symbols.
The Qur
ʾānic metaphor reappears: the clay was shaped, the vessel prepared, but
the rūh (spirit) was not yet breathed.
→ Bridge to Chapter 6: If the genome and brain were prepared, what
external forces pressed them to the threshold? Climate oscillations, bottlenecks,
and migration routes shaped the vessel further, preparing it for ignition.
