The Homo divergens Project
Theoretical Foundations
This section presents the core conceptual frameworks of the Homo Divergens Project, including its defining models, markers, and theoretical assumptions. These materials establish the analytical foundation used throughout the rest of the site.
The Rise of Homo divergens
By Dr. Mark Zuccolo
After many years of practicing psychotherapy, I am becoming increasingly interested in the theory that humanity is not evolving only through biology. I think humans are evolving, perhaps primarily, through cognition and new modes of attention, empathy, and abstraction. The human nervous system is not changing its anatomy, but it appears that it may be changing the way it processes reality. I would date the change as having occurred across the last two centuries, and as accelerating in the last two decades. What if our species has begun to differentiate into distinct cognitive types, shaped not by climate or diet but by information? Are we witnessing the dawn of Homo divergens? Beyond Homo sapiens, which is our current “configuration,” a human being may be emerging who is increasingly optimized for systems, data, and abstraction, perhaps at the cost of emotional immediacy and social intuition.
