Originum Journal publishes independent research by Ashleigh Davis on human origins, population genetics and the Network Population Dynamics (NPD) framework — a hypothesis developed through close, sustained questioning of the standard "tree of life" model of human evolution, carried out in collaboration with AI systems used as research and reasoning tools.
This work did not begin inside a university or a lab. It began with a direct, personal question about the numbers in the standard human timeline not adding up, and the willingness to keep pulling that thread. Several AI systems have been used throughout — for computational analysis, for stress-testing arguments, and for pushing back on weak reasoning — alongside published archaeological and genetic literature.
We present the findings here as hypotheses worth testing, not as settled science. That distinction matters: a hypothesis earns the right to be called a finding through open methodology, data that others can examine, and scrutiny from people whose job is to find the holes in it — population geneticists, paleoanthropologists, statisticians. That review is actively being sought. Formal papers are in progress and will be linked here, alongside an ORCID record, as they're published.
Some of the thinking methods used in this research were originally developed for Ask Lindy, an AI thinking-methods app built separately by the same author. The two projects are related in origin but distinct in purpose — this journal exists for the human origins research on its own terms.