The Making, the Rise, and the Future of the Speakingman

Seventh Edition

by Dan Mrejeru

The Speakingman argues that human cognition and language did not emerge through gradual Darwinian selection alone but through environmental shocks. Geomagnetic excursions, atmospheric radiation events and climatic cooling drove bursts of neurogenesis that rewired the hominin brain across two discrete cognitive leaps. The seventh edition adds a new Part on Planetary Thermal Cooling, proposing that long-term cooling of the planet was the permissive condition that allowed larger brains to evolve without fatal metabolic costs, and a discussion of the Information Society and the need for a deliberately cultivated hybrid mind in the age of AI.