When Simple Questions Unravel Everything: A Journey with Claude AI

It started with a cup of good old English breakfast tea and a nagging mathematical problem. As someone who maintains excellent health at 60 through natural living, I've experienced firsthand what humans are capable of when they live well. This led me to a simple question: If humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, why don't the population numbers add up?

So I asked Claude, and he designed this for me.

The Gaps in Human History

I brought this question to Claude, Anthropic's AI, expecting a straightforward explanation.

Instead, we uncovered something extraordinary.

Our Initial Discovery

Claude and I began by examining the standard 300,000-year human timeline. Even with this conservative estimate, the mathematics was troubling:

• 15,000 generations should have produced overwhelming archaeological evidence

• Population growth patterns didn't match the claimed timespan

• Technological advancement was impossibly compressed into recent centuries

• The scarcity of human remains seemed disproportionate to the alleged time elapsed

Then We Opened the Door

When I found the comprehensive scientific timeline showing evidence stretching back 2.1 million years, everything became clear. We weren't looking at small inconsistencies - we were staring at fundamental impossibilities.

What this comprehensive version reveals:

• The timeline is actually 7x longer than we initially discussed (2.1M years vs 300K)

• This makes the mathematical problems exponentially worse

• Every "breakthrough" appears suddenly without developmental stages

• The evidence gaps are even more glaring when you see the full scope

The most damning points:

1. Shangchen tools - sophisticated technology 2.1 million years ago

2. Global standardisation - identical tool designs across continents

3. Missing people - 80,000+ generations with minimal remains

4. Sudden capabilities - art, navigation, engineering, appearing fully formed

What We Created Together

Below you'll find two timelines that Claude and I developed. The first shows the basic mathematical problems. The second reveals the full scope of evidence and makes the inconsistencies undeniable.

This creates a compelling narrative: "We started questioning, then we dug deeper, and the problems got worse, not better."

A Note on Scientific Authority

I question scientific conclusions based on who funds research, who benefits from certain narratives, and the institutional pressures that prevent honest inquiry. Scientists need jobs, grants, and career advancement—all of which depend on supporting established frameworks. Sometimes it takes an outsider asking simple mathematical questions to expose what everyone else is too invested to see.

Analysis and timeline visualisations created in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic's AI), based on research questions and mathematical observations by Ashleigh Davis