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'''The Science of Heroes:''' |
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''Perhaps the source of the new "mutations" is rapid and sudden subspeciation via human endogenous retroviruses. With special thanks to author Greg Bear, here is a possible theory for the mutations:'' |
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Scattered throughout the supposedly "junk" (unused) portion of our DNA are HERVs (Human Endogenous Retroviruses). Endogenous retroviruses are RNA-based viruses that integrate their genetic material into the host's DNA, becoming part of the host's genome. Endogenous retroviruses exist in various forms in nearly all living things. Human Endogenous Retroviruses are the genetic fossils of ancient diseases, viruses that have entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. Along with natural selection, the evolutionary process is supplemented and mediated with the activation of a HERV. |
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Within the human genome are many "mobile" genes that can copy themselves and transport other genes from one position to another. These are called transposons, or retrotransposons, and they may play a huge role in organizing and regulating our genome. Retroviruses bear a distinct resemblance to retrotransposons. |
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The specific HERV that causes human evolution contains information gathered from previous mutations of species on what is a beneficial mutation, and can express itself, if under stress. The so-called "Heroes" are the result of a programmed reshuffling of genes induced by a transfer of coded genetic signals. Their characteristics are largely determined by a kind of "meta-evolutionary" response. |
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A genome is capable of reacting to the outside environment through our immune system and stress hormones and chemicals. Endogenous retroviruses and mobile genes are frequently activated by stress hormones. The immune system acts as a kind of radar, informing the genome about environmental changes-and in the "Heroes", the stress of changing external and emotional conditions determines the changes. |
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Proposed changes in morphology are stored up in populations in a genetic "set-aside" area within each individual. A "library" of records of past adaptations is used to "judge" new phenotypic proposals within the genome, individually and across the species. Morphological changes are enacted in "suites" of mutually advantageous mutations. Possible variations are selected and edited extensively based on evidence culled from the environment by the immune system. The retrovirus creates a phenotype more suited to handle the perceived stress in the environment. In a sense, the genome is making an "educated guess" based on past evolutionary experience, giving the new variety of humans a better statistical chance to succeed by mixing and matching and even expanding upon varieties of past traits. |
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The decision within a species to produce a new type of organism, or subtly modify aspects of an old one, is made using genomic rules which are similar to the rules that also allow clusters of neurons, including brains, to solve problems that confront organisms in the environment. |
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There's is essentially a master biological computer in each species, a processor that tots up possible beneficial mutations. It makes decisions about what, where, and when something will change...makes guesses based on success rates from past evolutionary experience. Stress related hormones can affect expression of genes and this evolutionary library of possible new forms responds to stress produced hormones. If enough members of a the species are under stress, they exchange signals, reach a kind of quorum, and this triggers a genetic algorithm that compares sources of stress with a list of adapations, evolutionary responses. |
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Simply put, when a certain threshold degree of stress in a species is detected by a genome, that genome dials through its library of possibilities for enhancement, punches in a selection, and releases one of these viral junk DNA segments to make the adjustment. |
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The released DNA segments produce proteins in large volumes of slightly different molecular design to ensure success and avoid immunological destruction. |
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This same retrovirus infected Homo erectus in the distant past. It created Homo sapiens in a single generation, a new fitter species more capable of surviving the stressful life of the cave man. Now it is happening again. |
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Normally the genomes of individuals become part of an extensive, species-scale neural network that causes a species-wide mutation of a homogenous evolutionary adaptation. However, the Heroes have certain genetic sequences that creates the production of a specific stress hormone that causes the HERV to be activated in a way that brings forth an "individual evolution" and therefore a relatively unique mutation for each person. |
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Latest revision as of 07:23, 23 September 2015
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