Deep time
The geological clock as the frame for everything that follows. Every shorter timescale — historical, civilizational, individual — only makes sense relative to it.
Selected themes
A "what I think about" page. Through-lines of the work — not a summary of the book.
Evolutionary punctuation
Why change is episodic, not steady. Long quiet stretches broken by short, climate-driven inflections that re-sort what survives.
The semi-aquatic ape
Bipedalism shaped by environment, not desire. A reframe of the Hardy/Morgan thesis: evolution proceeds from circumstance, not from wish.
Sundaland & the Mesolithic gap
The cradle that is not where we were taught to look. A landmass the size of the Indian subcontinent, lost to rising seas between 14,000 and 8,200 YA — and what its absence has hidden.
Maternal genetic lineages
Reading migration as inheritance. Nasreen, Rohani, Europa — the threads of mitochondrial DNA that record where populations actually went.
The architecture of cosmos
From the Big Bang outward. The book begins in cosmogenesis because every subsequent question of origin sits inside that frame.