There are some subjects where I have made a series of posts which follow a logical sequence, though they may not have been posted in that order and may supersede or update earlier posts on the same topic. To assist myself and other readers, I provide ordered links to posts that form a series about a specific topic.

Consciousness

• What is consciousness
• Annaka Harris on the fundamental mystery of consciousness
• Consciousness Explained or Ignored: A review of Daniel Dennett
• The hard problem of consciousness: David Chalmers and The Conscious Mind
• The “real” problem of consciousness: a review of Being You by Anil Seth
• Consciousness and free will – Part 1
• Consciousness and free will – Part 2
• Will AIs (artificial intelligence) become conscious?
• Consciousness: natural or supernatural?

Deep Ancestry: maternal and paternal migration paths out of Africa

• Deep maternal ancestry and mtDNA: explains the use of mitochondrial DNA.
• Mitochondrial Eve -an update: on our most recent common maternal ancestor
• My maternal ancestors from Eve via ice age Europe to Victorian England (U5 haplogroup)
• Tracing my paternal ancestors through y-dna: The use of Y chromosome DNA
• Y-chromosomal Adam: our last common paternal ancestor
• My paternal ancestors from Adam via ice age Siberia to the steppes of Europe
• My paternal ancestors’ European journey from the Caspian steppes to Celtiberia

Human evolution

• Our Asgardian ancestors: the evolution of eukaryotic cells
• Becoming human Part 1: The evolution of pre-human species from 35 Mya to 2 Mya.
• Becoming human Part 2: The evolution of humans over the last two million years.

Atheism, religion and spirituality

• Is religious belief in decline and atheism on the rise?
• Global and country-level prevalence of atheism in 2020
• Pre-modern values, religion and culture
• Prevalence of pre-modern values across the world
• Premodern religious values and happiness
• Atheism and Spirituality
• Definitions of God and the Motte-and-Bailey fallacy
• Global, regional and country-level trends in religiosity and atheism: an update
• Modern and pre-modern religious values: an update
• Values and religion in 2020: an updated map
• Religiosity and atheism in younger adults
• Belief in heaven and hell – Part 1
• Belief in heaven and hell – Part 2
• Christian beliefs in heaven and hell are not what Jesus taught
• What do people mean when they say they believe in God
• The widening gulf between values in Red and Blue states of the USA
• What proportion of the population are actively religious across the world? 
• Are atheists more moral than most Christians?

Reproductive freedom

Coming soon.

Iron age and megalithic structures

Coming soon.