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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
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INTERDOC_59 — Intergenerational Trauma: A Three-Channel Synthesis (Epigenetic, Psychological, Cultural)
Trauma is empirically heritable — but not through any single mechanism. The dominant public framing (epigenetics-as-Lamarckism) is overconfident; the dominant academic counter-framing (it's all attachment / it's all cult
INTERDOC_19 — Cosmic Impact, Mythology, and Cultural Memory
[KEY FINDING] The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) — first proposed by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith (2006–2007) — argues that a cosmic impact or airburst event ~12,800 BP triggered the You
INTERDOC — Archaic Knowledge Continuity: Transmission Pathways Across Civilizational Transitions
This cross-section synthesis document traces how specific technical, cosmological, and medical knowledge traditions survived, transformed, or were independently rediscovered across major civilizational transitions. It ma
ZB_1_02 — Social Insects — Superorganisms and Collective Intelligence
Social insects — ants, bees, wasps, and termites — represent one of evolution's most spectacular innovations: the subordination of individual reproduction to colony-level organization, producing "superorganisms" capable
ZB_1_08 — Cephalopod Intelligence and Cognition
Cephalopods — octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and nautiluses — represent the pinnacle of invertebrate cognitive evolution, having independently evolved complex brains and sophisticated behaviors along a lineage that diverg
ZB_4_11 — Island Ecology: Biogeography, Endemism, and Evolutionary Radiation
Island ecology — centered on the theory of island biogeography developed by Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson (1963, 1967) — provides one of ecology's most influential theoretical frameworks, explaining how species d
ZB_4_01 — Biogeography and Island Biology
Biogeography — the study of the geographic distribution of organisms — was one of Darwin's and Wallace's most powerful lines of evidence for evolution and remains central to modern biology. Alfred Russel Wallace identifi
ZC_4_05 — Tourism, Heritage, and the Anthropology of Sacred Sites
The anthropology of tourism and heritage examines how places, objects, and practices are designated as culturally significant, how they are consumed by visitors, and who controls the narratives, profits, and meanings at
G_4_18 — Biogeography and Ancient Distribution Patterns
Biogeography — the study of the spatial distribution of organisms across the planet, both present and past — is one of the most powerful frameworks for understanding Earth history, evolutionary processes, and the mechani
G_3_12 — Morphic Resonance and Formative Causation
Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by Rupert Sheldrake (1981, A New Science of Life) that posits the existence of morphic fields — non-local, non-energetic fields that carry information about the habits (forms an
G_2_15 — Cognitive Archaeology — Mind in the Archaeological Record
Cognitive archaeology investigates the cognitive abilities, mental processes, and symbolic capacities of past peoples through the material record they left behind — seeking to understand not just what ancient people did,
O_2_04 — Geological Hotspots and Mantle Plumes
Geological hotspots are locations where anomalously high volcanic activity occurs away from tectonic plate boundaries — the dominant hypothesis explains them as surface expressions of mantle plumes, columns of hot, buoya
O_3_01 — Biodiversity, Ecosystem Intelligence, and the Superorganism
Earth harbors an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic species (Mora et al. 2011), of which only ~1.5-1.8 million have been formally described — meaning roughly 80% of species remain unknown to science. When prokaryotes (bact
T_4_19 — Forensic Psychology: Profiling, Eyewitness Testimony & False Confessions
Forensic psychology — the application of psychological science to legal questions — has fundamentally transformed the criminal justice system while exposing critical vulnerabilities in traditional investigative and judic
T_2_11 — Psychology of Aging and Gerontology
The psychology of aging examines cognitive, emotional, and social changes across the adult lifespan, integrating insights from developmental psychology, neuroscience, and gerontology. A central distinction in cognitive a
T_2_01 — Psychology of Grief, Loss, and Death Awareness
The psychology of grief, loss, and death awareness spans clinical bereavement research, existential psychology, and experimental social cognition. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five-stage model (1969), though culturally ubiqui
T_3_18 — Anomalistic Psychology
Anomalistic psychology is the scientific study of extraordinary human experiences — including apparent telepathy, precognition, ghost sightings, alien abduction reports, near-death experiences, and other phenomena tradit
T_3_04 — Sleep Psychology and Dreams
Sleep occupies approximately one-third of human life yet its functions remain among the most actively investigated questions in neuroscience and psychology.
T_5_25 — Cognitive Evolution: The Development of Human Mental Capacities
Cognitive evolution — the study of how human mental capacities emerged and developed over evolutionary time — addresses one of the deepest questions in science: how did a lineage of African primates develop language, sym
B_1_27 — Muse: Inspiration Deities Across Cultures
The concept of divine inspiration — the idea that creative and intellectual achievement flows not from the individual alone but from a supernatural source that acts through the creator — is one of the most persistent ide
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