**ISSUE TWO** Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Genomic Evidence of Human/Cnidarian Neural Integration: Systematic Conservation of Jellyfish Neural Networks Across All Known Homo Lineages”. *The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution* 1, no. 2 (July 27, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16471873. Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “Quantum-active Genomic Architecture: Personal Genome Analysis Reveals Coordinated Quantum-genomic Networks”. *The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution* 1, no. 2 (June 26, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15750523. Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “First Principles for Quantum Mechanics: Open Sourcing the Universe's Operating System”. *The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution* 1, no. 2 (June 27, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15751689. ---------- ***NOTES:*** - Supplemental data for **Issue Two** is available under the "[Files][1]" tab. - Data for **Issue One** is available under the [Issue One][2] component. ---------- **JOURNAL** The *Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution* is a cross-disciplinary platform for research at the intersection of deep-time biology, ecological persistence, and evolutionary theory. It was founded to investigate a possibility science has largely ignored: that ancient marine organisms and biospheres survived the transition to land and continue to shape the surface world in ways we do not yet fully understand. The original spark for the editor and author was a biological "discovery" under her own microscope. She sought to understand her observations with existing literature and theories, and then realized there was no existing explanation. She then took a systems engineering and failure analysis approach to modern biological consensus, starting with the theories that were directly challenged by what she observed. She then worked to 'debug' modern scientific consensus and evaluate where the failures were originating, and how to mitigate and resolve those gaps and issues. These publications document those findings and a suggested path forward, admittedly from an outsider without any vested interest in modern consensus. This journal brings together work from molecular biology, marine sciences, mycology and protistology, systems ecology, emergence and complexity, quantum mechanics, engineering, palaeoarchaeology, hydrology and geological sciences, the humanities, and beyond; to explore questions that resist categorization. - What forms of life originated in the ocean but successfully made it to land? - What forms of life are still alive but buried beneath our coastal cities? - How may ancient marine organisms and the emergence of complex life explain today's biological mysteries? - Could consciousness be explained through a proper understanding of evolutionary process and marine origins? - Could quantum mechanics explain modern biological mysteries related to complexity and networks? - How might tectonic processes like uplift, obduction, or subduction contribute to biological preservation and emergence? - What if biological theories require multiple lines of evidence, including ecological and evolutionary consideration? - What if new theories could be accepted based on first principles and multiple lines of evidence, without requiring harmony with "consensus"? I created this journal because these are the kinds of questions that don’t have a home in conventional science. They're too interdisciplinary, too complex, too biologically speculative, too politically inconvenient. But they are essential questions. Answering them demands a platform willing to bridge data and danger, theory and nature, what we actually see in front of us and what we think we know. Whether the subject is an ancient fungal lineage with protist genomic signatures, a city built atop a vent-formed seafloor, or an ancient deep-sea amoeba rediscovered alive and well in a ditch behind a coastal strip mall, this journal seeks to document, investigate, and honor the tangled, preserved, resurrected ancestry of life and to hold accountable the systems that keep trying to bury it again. -Ashley [1]: https://osf.io/ywb2t/files/osfstorage [2]: https://osf.io/69whf/