Page 86 - Flipping book The Adam Paradox Hypothesis - Second Edition.pdf

The Ādam Paradox Hypothesis 63
Each of these contributes a layer in the ignition hierarchy: some enlarge the
“hardware” of the brain, others extend developmental plasticity, others wire the
circuits for speech and symbol, and still others act as fine-tuned accelerators.
Individually, they are significant; but their true importance lies in synchrony. If
even one switch activates out of sequence, the system collapses into dysfunction.
Here lies the paradox: evolutionary theory asks us to accept that a dozen
independent loci, scattered across different chromosomes, mutated and
coordinated perfectly, within a narrow window, to produce symbolic
cognition. The Adam Paradox Hypothesis offers a more coherent explanation
— that this convergence was not random, but a directed orchestration of the
human genome toward ignition.
The Numbers: Why Chance Can’t Explain It
Let’s be generous to the evolutionary model. Assume:
A population of 10,000 individuals.
A mutation rate of 1 in 100 million per DNA letter per generation.
A very wide target (100 bases) where a change might help.
Strong selection, so good changes have a 2% chance of spreading.
A synchrony window of ~2,500 years (100 generations).
Even with those generous assumptions
In reality, the odds are far worse, because real “target windows”
are much smaller, and genes interact
(epistasis). The chance that all three aligned randomly is essentially zero.