DOMAIN I — Biological & Neurocognitive Structure

Markers reflecting innate or early-emerging neurodevelopmental patterns, motor behavior, attention, and intimate relational tendencies.

Marker	H sapiens (HS)	Homo hybridus (HH)	Homo divergens (HD)
1. Sensory Sensitivity	Sensory thresholds tend to cluster around the ecological norm. HS adapts environments enough to stay comfortable but usually does not treat sensory experience as a central organizing concern. Overstimulation is recognized mainly when it disrupts function.	Sensory experience is mixed and context dependent. HH may appear within a typical range in everyday environments but can shift into HD-like acuity when detail, pattern, or danger matters. In translator roles, HH uses this flexible sensitivity to notice both the subtle social cues that matter to HS majorities and the fine-grained informational textures that matter to HD. The ecological cost is a need for deliberate down-regulation and recovery after prolonged high-intensity contexts.	For HD, sensory input tends to arrive with unusually high salience, either as intense amplification or as selective under-response that is still driven by internal patterning. The system preferentially locks onto signals that are structurally or conceptually interesting rather than socially prioritized. This can produce both overwhelm in noisy, chaotic environments and deep pleasure or immersion in highly specific sensory niches. Strengths include fine-grained discrimination, detection of subtle anomalies, and rich aesthetic experience. Vulnerabilities include sensory overload, fatigue, and chronic mismatch with environments optimized for HS sensory ranges.
2. Motor Atypia	Motor behavior is broadly aligned with local norms for posture, gesture, and pacing. HS uses motor signals to mark belonging, deference, and confidence and can usually internalize expected scripts without major cost.	Motor behavior is often adjustable rather than uniformly atypical. HH can approximate HS-normative motor patterns in public, institutional, or leadership settings yet may revert to more idiosyncratic, HD-adjacent movement when unobserved or when immersed in high-cognitive tasks. This capacity to simulate normative motor signaling supports the translator function, allowing HH to be legible to HS while still embodying HD-like pacing and posture in safe contexts.	In HD, motor behavior often reflects internal timing more than external pacing. Gait, posture, gesture, and fine-motor routines may appear idiosyncratic, asynchronous, or “off-beat” relative to the surrounding social rhythm. These patterns can serve regulatory functions, such as self-stimulation, grounding, or timing alignment with deep cognitive work. Strengths include the potential for highly specialized fine-motor skill, unconventional tool use, and embodied problem solving. Vulnerabilities include social misinterpretation, stigma, and friction in settings that equate normative motor presentation with competence or respect.
3. Attention Style	Attention is typically tuned to socially salient cues, immediate tasks, and shared priorities. HS can shift focus when context demands and tends to follow the attentional rhythms of the surrounding group.	Attention oscillates between HD-style deep focus and HS-style field awareness. In mediation contexts HH can narrow focus to track abstract structure, then widen to monitor social-emotional climate, often within a single interaction. This bidirectional shift allows HH to understand both the formal problem and the human situation, at the cost of higher regulation demands and fatigue when rapid switching is sustained.	HD attention is strongly monotropic and pattern-driven. It tends to converge on a small number of high-salience topics or tasks and sustain deep focus, often to the exclusion of peripheral demands. Shifts in attention follow internal salience maps rather than external sequence or hierarchy. Strengths include the ability to sustain long, uninterrupted stretches of concentrated work, to track complex systems over time, and to enter highly productive “tunnel” states. Vulnerabilities include difficulty with rapid task switching, divided attention, and environments that demand continuous responsiveness to shallow, multi-threaded input.
4. Sexual–Relational Profile	Relational and sexual patterns are broadly organized by prevailing cultural scripts: pair bonding, friendship, kin roles, and institutional expectations. HS tends to seek stability and recognizability in relationship structure and signals.	Relational life is frequently organized around bridging. HH is drawn into roles that connect different cognitive types, for example partnerships where one partner is more HS-like and the other more HD-like, or where institutions and individuals must be negotiated simultaneously. Intimacy patterns often include translating unspoken needs, reframing conflict in terms both parties can recognize, and holding loyalty to more than one cultural or cognitive world. This can be experienced by others as unusually steady, unusually complex, or both.	For HD, sexual and relational attachment is often organized around cognitive resonance, shared projects, and moral or existential alignment rather than conventional social scripts. Desire may be delayed, asynchronous, or structured by intellectual and symbolic connection more than purely affective or physical cues. The timing, intensity, and form of intimacy often diverge from majority expectations, including preferences for deep dyadic bonds, unconventional relationship structures, or long periods of solitary focus. Strengths include capacity for profound loyalty, high relational honesty, and sustained commitment once alignment is established. Vulnerabilities include misunderstanding, misreading by partners socialized in HS norms, and difficulty navigating early relational phases that rely heavily on implicit social signaling.

DOMAIN II — Processing & Patterning

Markers reflecting characteristic modes of processing information, identifying structure, and operating at varying levels of abstraction.

Marker	H sapiens (HS)	Homo hybridus (HH)	Homo divergens (HD)
5. Processing Speed	Processing speed tends to follow task and group tempo. HS generally keeps pace with institutional rhythms and adjusts more by managing load than by radically changing speed.	Processing speed is variable and context triggered. HH may accelerate when translation is required, moving quickly to repackage complex HD material into HS-friendly narratives or to expand simple HS stories into HD-usable models. In emotionally dense or politically sensitive situations, HH may slow down to protect alliances and relationships. The pattern is less about being globally fast or slow and more about allocating pace to keep both sides in contact.	HD processing is often asynchronous with observable behavior. Internal comprehension can be extremely rapid when input maps cleanly onto existing structures, yet translation into speech, writing, or action may lag as the person refines internal models. In other contexts, HD may appear slow while it performs complex multi-step pattern assembly in the background. Strengths include capacity for sudden insight, rapid restructuring of conceptual space, and efficient leaps over intermediate steps when patterns are clear. Vulnerabilities include underestimation by others in contexts that reward visible speed rather than depth, and personal frustration when internal clarity outpaces the ability to express or implement.
6. Pattern Detection	Pattern recognition focuses on familiar regularities in family, work, and culture. HS detects patterns that support prediction and belonging, usually within the dominant framework rather than across competing ones.	Pattern detection is high but oriented toward linkage rather than purity. HH notices correspondences between institutional rules, interpersonal dynamics, and symbolic or ideological structures, and uses these patterns to align HS expectations with HD innovations. The hybrid strength is not only seeing patterns but anticipating how different cognitive groups will interpret them and where misunderstanding will arise.	HD cognition is strongly tuned to structure over surface. The system automatically searches for regularities, invariants, and meta-patterns in data, situations, and social environments. Repetitions, anomalies, and hidden symmetries stand out and tend to become organizing anchors for further thought. Strengths include powerful hypothesis generation, early detection of systemic breakdowns or inconsistencies, and the ability to connect domains that appear unrelated at the surface level. Vulnerabilities include overfitting (seeing pattern where none is functionally relevant), difficulty ignoring irrelevant but interesting regularities, and friction with environments that prefer local, practical focus over deep system mapping.
7. Abstraction Capacity	Abstraction is available but anchored to concrete practice. HS moves to more general ideas when they help coordinate action or preserve norms, and often returns quickly to examples, stories, and precedents.	Abstraction is readily available but usually deployed in service of communication. HH can move to a meta-level to reframe conflict, translate between value systems, or generalize from specific events to shared principles that both HS and HD can accept. Rather than living primarily in abstraction, HH tends to shuttle between concrete cases and higher-order frames, keeping both visible at once.	HD shows a strong pull toward working at higher levels of abstraction. Concrete details are often treated as examples of underlying principles, and experience is quickly transformed into concepts, models, or symbolic frameworks. This facilitates work in philosophy, theory building, systems design, and high-level strategy. Strengths include comfort with counterfactuals, formal structures, and long time horizons, along with the ability to hold multiple possible worlds in mind. Vulnerabilities include difficulty staying anchored in immediate practical demands, the risk of neglecting embodied or emotional information, and misunderstandings with others who rely more on concrete narrative and shared local experience.

DOMAIN III — Systemizing & Reasoning

Markers describing rule-based thinking, emotional modulation, and the dominant mode of empathy.

Marker	H sapiens (HS)	Homo hybridus (HH)	Homo divergens (HD)
8. Systemizing Drive	HS typically internalizes the local system enough to function and belong rather than to redesign it. Rules, roles, and procedures are taken as given unless they visibly fail or threaten relationships.	HH is drawn to systems yet rarely absolutizes a single one. The hybrid pattern is to understand both the explicit institutional rules that organize HS-dominated environments and the implicit structural logics that appeal to HD. HH often designs “maps between maps,” procedures, or informal practices that reconcile official rules with how people and ideas actually behave, which is the core of the negotiator function.	In HD, there is a persistent tendency to convert domains into systems that can be explicitly modeled. Social behavior, institutions, moral norms, and even personal habits are analyzed in terms of rules, constraints, feedback loops, and failure modes. The default impulse is to ask how a thing works, where the logic fails, and how it could be re-engineered. Strengths include strong competence in engineering, coding, mathematics, strategy, policy design, and any field that benefits from explicit structure. Vulnerabilities include discomfort with opaque or purely conventional practices, difficulty tolerating “because we do it this way,” and conflict with systems that defend themselves through tradition rather than rational justification.
9. Emotional Regulation	Regulation relies heavily on social co-regulation, shared narratives, and culturally learned strategies. HS expects feelings to be negotiated interpersonally and often treats solitary cognitive reframing as secondary.	Regulation relies on both cognitive framing and relational connection. Under cognitive strain HH may shift into HD-like rationalization, cooling emotion to keep problem-solving online. Under social strain HH may lean into HS-like co-regulation, alliance maintenance, and soothing. The oscillation between these modes is part of the hybrid signature and allows HH to stabilize mixed HS/HD environments, while increasing the risk of exhaustion when both are demanded at once.	HD tends to manage emotions through analysis, re-framing, and internal narrative control rather than through spontaneous social sharing or intuitive self-soothing. Affect may appear muted externally even when internal arousal is high, or it may be delayed until after a situation has been cognitively processed. Strengths include the ability to remain functional in crises, to separate signal from noise under emotional pressure, and to generate structured responses to complex problems. Vulnerabilities include accumulated emotional backlog, somatic stress, and relational misunderstandings when others interpret regulated presentation as indifference, coldness, or lack of care.
10. Empathic Mode	Empathy is primarily affective and intuitive. HS tends to feel with others, rely on shared stories, and infer needs from familiar scripts rather than from explicit models of other minds.	HH typically carries both channels. With HS, HH can mirror affect, share emotional tone, and speak in narrative terms. With HD, HH can maintain analytic distance, model internal states, and respect autonomy of thought. In translator roles HH often uses cognitive empathy to understand HD positions and affective empathy to make those positions bearable and intelligible for HS majorities. The internal burden is tracking two empathic logics in parallel.	HD empathy primarily operates through perspective-taking, pattern recognition, and model construction of other minds. The focus is on understanding what someone is likely to think, believe, or do, and on evaluating fairness and consistency, rather than on directly mirroring emotional states. Strengths include strong analytic empathy, ability to work across cultural or ideological divides, and capacity to design fair systems or policies that consider multiple stakeholders. Vulnerabilities include under-activation of affective warmth in real time, difficulty with purely emotional reassurance, and the risk that others experience the HD person as distant or overly analytical even when they are deeply concerned.

DOMAIN IV — Social & Communication

Markers describing social inference, communication style, and the structure of self-identity.

Marker	H sapiens (HS)	Homo hybridus (HH)	Homo divergens (HD)
11. Social Intuition	HS is optimized for reading locally shared cues: tone, gesture, hierarchy, and convention. Intuition is strong inside the home culture and weaker across unfamiliar or divergent subcultures.	HH reads both surface norms and underlying tensions. Social intuition includes a sensitivity to how HS groups codify belonging, status, and politeness, together with a sense of how HD individuals or subgroups are quietly diverging. This double vision allows HH to anticipate when a proposal, idea, or person will be rejected or misread, and to intervene early as a negotiator.	HD social cognition tends to prioritize explicit content and structural patterns over subtle, locally learned signals. Unwritten rules, shifting group expectations, and status cues may be missed, deprioritized, or questioned. At the same time, HD often detects macro-level dynamics, power structures, and long-term patterns of interaction more readily than moment-to-moment etiquette. Strengths include the ability to see through performative norms, to challenge unjust conventions, and to form relationships that are based on shared values rather than pure conformity. Vulnerabilities include social friction, misinterpretation of intent on both sides, and fatigue from environments that demand continuous, high-resolution tracking of unspoken expectations.
12. Communication Density	Communication is tuned to shared context: implicit where norms are stable, explicit when needed, but generally calibrated so that most people can follow without overload.	Communication naturally shifts register. HH can speak in dense, explicit, HD-compatible language when precision and structure matter, then compress or re-story the same content into HS-friendly, narrative, or metaphorical form. In practice this looks like constant live translation: simplifying without falsifying for HS and elaborating without patronizing for HD. Meta-communication about what is being done in speech is often present.	HD communication tends to carry high conceptual load per unit of speech or text. Ideas are often expressed with precision, technical vocabulary, and layered implications that assume a shared framework. Literal phrasing is common, and rhetorical padding is minimized unless consciously added. Strengths include the ability to convey complex ideas efficiently, to compress arguments into clear structures, and to produce dense, high-value discourse. Vulnerabilities include overwhelming conversational partners, being perceived as blunt, pedantic, or “too much,” and difficulty engaging in small talk that does not appear to serve a cognitive or relational function.
13. Identity Coherence	Identity is organized around socially available roles and narratives. HS tends to anchor self-concept in family position, occupation, community membership, and culturally shared life stages.	Identity is authored around a hybrid function. HH often experiences multiple internal stances: one that understands and partially participates in HS norms, another that resonates with HD divergence, and a third that holds the bridge between them. Coherence comes less from fitting a single template and more from a narrative of being the connector, the hinge, or the third position that keeps contact between worlds.	HD identity tends to form around internal principles, long-term projects, and self-generated narratives rather than around standard roles, group memberships, or local expectations. The sense of self is often decoupled from immediate social feedback and is anchored in abstract commitments or chosen missions. Strengths include resilience in the face of social disapproval, capacity to inhabit unconventional life paths, and a coherent sense of self across changing contexts. Vulnerabilities include chronic alienation, difficulty with transitional phases where identity is still forming, and conflict with environments that equate loyalty with normative self-presentation.

DOMAIN V — Moral & Spiritual Structure

Markers reflecting internally generated moral systems and abstract, non-anthropomorphic spiritual cognition.

Marker	H sapiens (HS)	Homo hybridus (HH)	Homo divergens (HD)
14. Moral Cognition	Moral reasoning is strongly guided by local norms, exemplars, and relational obligations. HS tends to evaluate actions in terms of loyalty, fairness within the group, and adherence to recognized authorities or traditions.	Moral reasoning integrates principle and relationship. HH tends to triangulate between HS expectations of loyalty and fairness and HD commitments to abstract consistency or long-range outcomes. In conflict HH looks for solutions that preserve enough of each system that neither side feels erased, which is the moral form of the negotiator role. This can appear indecisive to purists on either side but is highly adaptive in mixed ecologies.	HD moral reasoning is strongly organized around explicit principles such as fairness, harm minimization, autonomy, and coherence. Social consensus or tradition may be considered but is rarely decisive on its own. When norms conflict with principles, HD often sides with the abstract rule and accepts the social cost. Strengths include high integrity, willingness to challenge unjust systems, and the potential to act as whistleblower, reformer, or moral innovator. Vulnerabilities include rigidity when principles are not tempered by practical constraints, intense moral distress in compromised environments, and relational conflict when others experience this stance as judgmental or inflexible.
15. Spiritual Orientation	Spiritual or meaning-making life often centers on personal and communal narratives, anthropomorphic images of the sacred, and concrete practices that bind groups together.	Spiritual or meaning-making life often combines communal forms with abstract interpretation. HH can inhabit HS-style ritual, story, and symbol while interpreting them in HD-like conceptual or systemic terms. This produces a capacity to explain symbolic worlds to rationalists and rational worlds to symbolists, and to hold loyalty to traditions while also reformulating their underlying principles.	HD spirituality often takes the form of engagement with symbolic systems, metaphysical structures, or deep coherence patterns rather than personalistic or purely ritual practice. The focus may be on meaning, ultimate structure, and the alignment of one’s life with large-scale truths, whether inside or outside formal religious institutions. Strengths include openness to multiple traditions at the level of concept, capacity for rich symbolic interpretation, and the ability to formulate personal cosmologies that integrate science, ethics, and existential concern. Vulnerabilities include difficulty connecting with conventional communal forms, the risk of spiritual isolation, and tendencies toward over-intellectualization of experience.
16. Adaptive Behavior	Adaptation is primarily achieved by learning and following the dominant scripts of family, work, and society, with incremental adjustment when those scripts fail. HS tends to modify environment only as much as needed to restore familiar functioning.	Adaptive behavior is organized around mediation. HH moves across contexts, subcultures, and institutions, learning the codes of each and constructing practical routines that keep channels open. Typical strategies include pre-translation of information, informal conflict mediation, and quiet redesign of workflows so that both HS and HD can participate. The benefits are high ecological value in complex systems; the costs include chronic overextension and the need for periods of withdrawal to restore baseline.	HD tends to adapt not by seamless mimicry of prevailing norms but by restructuring environments, routines, and tools to better fit its own cognitive ecology. This can involve designing personal systems, boundaries, and workflows that reduce friction, or seeking niches where divergence is an asset rather than a liability. Strengths include original problem solving, niche construction, and the capacity to pioneer new roles or institutional forms. Vulnerabilities include high regulation cost, friction with rigid institutions, and the risk of chronic exhaustion when environmental redesign is not possible and masking becomes the only viable short-term strategy.

OSCILLATION MODIFIER (APPLICABLE TO ALL MARKERS)

0 — Minimal oscillation; stable trait expression.
1 — Oscillation under stress.
2 — Oscillation under relational or cognitive load.
3 — Routine oscillation across contexts.
4 — Chronic oscillation; pervasive modulation.