A Tentative Role for FOXP2 in the Evolution of Dual Processing Modes and\n Generative Abilities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It has been suggested that the origins of cognitive modernity in the\nMiddle/Upper Paleolithic following the appearance of anatomically modern humans\nwas due to the onset of dual processing or contextual focus (CF), the ability\nto shift between different modes of thought: an explicit mode conducive to\nlogical problem solving, and an implicit mode conducive to free-association and\nbreaking out of a rut. Mathematical and computational models of CF supported\nthis hypothesis, showing that CF is conducive to making creative connections by\nplacing concepts in new contexts. This paper proposes that CF was made possible\nby mutation of the FOXP2 gene in the Paleolithic. FOXP2, once thought to be the\n'language gene', turned out not to be uniquely associated with language. In its\nmodern form FOXP2 enabled fine-tuning of the neurological mechanisms underlying\nthe capacity to shift between processing modes by varying the size of the\nactivated region of memory.\n
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".