The Book That Discovered The Hard Science Of
Human Nature And History

• Paul's Book: Human Sin or Social Sin: Evolutionary Psychology,  Plato, and the Christian Logic of Sociology (2016) 
  
  

The British Museum recently had an exhibition called “Troy: Myth and Reality,” which expresses the canonization of Human Sin or Social Sin. This canonization is evident from the exhibition catalogue.

The catalogue uses Paul’s psychological vocabulary (“Resonance”) to describe how gender psychology and relationships form together to move social history and Old Master art history. The “Reality” in the title refers to how Paul’s models unify history to make clear the universal nature of Homer’s gender relationships.

A hypothetical parallel to Paul’s in the area of physical science would be an exhibition at the Smithsonian on the mathematical discoveries that led to creating new foundations for most of science and technology. That exhibition would be part of the canonization of those mathematical discoveries.

The show at the British Museum helps to clarify Paul’s status as the Newton and Einstein of psychology and history. And I agree with the Harvard professor who said that “Paul may be the greatest genius in history.”

Richard Lynn, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Ulster


Two female undergraduates at the University of Utah said that they studied my models in classes on prehistoric anthropology and child development.


Most major museums have mounted exhibitions featuring the socio-aesthetic ideas of Human Sin or Social Sin. In the area of fine arts, they include the British Museum, the Musée de Louvre, the Uffizi, and the Metropolitan Museum of art; in the decorative arts, the Château de Fontainebleau; and in opera, the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Since this web document was published in the summer of 2019, the peer review of Human Sin or Social Sin has reached the highest level: canonization.

This new status was not only achieved in the social and biological sciences, but now extends all the way to artistic elites and institutions—such as the Louvre Museum, musicology, and the Bayreuth Opera Festival.

In addition, Human Sin or Social Sin is supported by over twenty-five Hollywood films, including such A-list films as Wonder Woman 1984 and Raya and the Last Dragon.

The entire canonization process—from the scientific tests of my first book to the publications from the arts organizations—took just thirteen years, 2007 to 2020, culminating with the publication of The Louvre: The History, The Collections, The Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 2020), and the release of the Blu Ray recording of the opera Tannhäuser from The Bayreuth Festival (Deutsche Grammophon, 2020).

The canonization also extends to popular culture with over twenty-five Hollywood films, including several A-list, such as, Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Joker (2019), David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016), Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (2018), Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell (2018), and James Mangold’s Ford and Ferrari (2019).

For the canonization process in the arts, see Resurrecting Louis the XIV? For the canonization in Hollywood, see, Darwin Goes to the Movies!?!

There are many other publications in the arts and humanities of a somewhat lesser profile, but that, when combined, nevertheless reflect the canonization of Human Sin or Social Sin. Descriptions of these individual studies will be added to the page “Resurrecting Louis the 14th?” below. I cannot recall another scholar ever having received such comprehensive support during his lifetime.

My first book, which laid the biological foundations for social history, was published in 2007. My book on the Platonist structure of aesthetic history was published in 2011—with later editions in 2013 and 2016. The book published in 2007 uses chimpanzee behavior to model social and class history, while the later book on Plato extends the model to art and music history.

All of this grew out of an early interest in periodizing contemporary culture. The methods I developed to model contemporary culture were then extended back to most aspects of history. The sciences, arts, and humanities then tested these models in their respective areas, and this web document will describe representative publications to illustrate the canonization of Human Sin or Social Sin.

A big question can apparently result in big answers. That, in essence, is the story of my life and work. My father asked me when I was 25, "If you could do anything you want, what would it be?" I responded, "I want to periodize contemporary culture." That is the psychological equivalent of Albert Einstein, saying, "I want to discover a unified model for the universe." I should consider myself lucky that my sights were set far lower than those of poor Einstein. My question led me to simply look closely at those around me. I then noticed that male violence was sexualized for women. This, in turn, prompted me to consider crime and gender as related, and so this sounded like Darwin, or evolutionary biology, held the key to periodizing modern culture. That indeed turned out to be the golden, but very long, road.

The book is about how the West has changed its perspectives on almost everything: nature, psychology, ethics, other groups, history, the arts, sex and gender, science, technology, and other important areas. So my work is about how the West has new moral and intellectual lenses through which they view their own traditions and so their relation with other groups.

I am fortunate that most of the footwork of my project was done by many other heroic individuals who know more mathematics and science than I do. As my book, Human Sin or Social Sin is 90% empirical; I needed the scientific community to construct, or reconstruct, the models of the human evolutionary sciences so as to structure, in a broad way, the motley crew that fleshes out my book, Human Sin or Social Sin. The only individual on record who is credited with creating something out of nothing is God, and while several have called me a genius, no one as yet has compared me to God. (If immortality means, in my case, living eternally as I have during the last 20 years, not even God could survive that!)  So this web-document will describe the academic status of my life's work and love, the study Human Sin or Social Sin: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato, and the Christian Logic of Sociology.

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