On The Life Sciences Scene

This Is What Evolution Is All About...

"Hobbit brain small, but organized for complex intelligence"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42469/title/Hobbit_brain_small%2C_but_organized_for_complex_intelligence
"Evolution may have endowed a controversial species with small but humanlike brains equipped to support advanced thinking."

Evolution Does Not Endow Anyone With Anything.
It Is One's Culture That Endows Its Genetics.

This is what evolution is all about...

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

No End Of Passe Sleep Mantra

A. "Sleep may clear the decks for next day’s learning"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42456/title/Sleep_may_clear_the_decks_for_next_day%E2%80%99s_learning
Two separate studies suggest that sleep reduces connections between neurons in fruit flies’ brains.

B. "Missing piece of plant clock found", about "the underlying biochemical mechanisms that control plant clocks". 2009 Passe Mantra.
http://www.physorg.com/news156087384.html

C. No End Of Passe Sleep Mantra

Future research reports will re-affirm, in sophisticated sciencelingo, that the rooster indeed brings on sunrise, or that Gazania flowers switch the sun on and off.

It's about time to understand the origin and function of sleep. There is no "biochemical mechanisms that control bio-clocks". Bio-clocks are products of the innate active-sleep pattern of genes and genomes, parents of all Earth's Life, since in their days of genesis and early evolution direct sunlight was the only source of energy in pre-metabolism Earth life. Melatonin and some proteins are dark-and-light que signals evolved by later monocellular communities, pre-multicellular organisms, for timing intercells clean-up and maintenance processes when intracell genes-genome processes are inactive.

Dov Henis
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201

Unbelievable Delusions

Cause Of Broadband Deployment Is Not Yet Determined, But
The Cure Of The World Economy Crash Is Imminent,
Now How Will The Post-Crash Economy Affect Innovation?

FW: Tech Policy Summit in Silicon Valley
Tech Policy Summit, May 11-13,2009 - Silicon Valley

"Technology is rapidly changing every aspect of our lives, but often our policy thinking is stuck in old habits of a pre-tech past. The Obama administration is making some moves to adapt to this new "World 2.0," but are they enough? And what about Congress and state policymakers? How will the post-crash economy affect innovation? To explore these questions, ScienceDebate.Org is partnering with Tech Policy Central to cosponsor this year's Tech Policy Summit in Silicon Valley.

Hosted by BusinessWeek columnist Steve Wildstrom, the 2009 Summit will focus on strategies for accelerating innovation and economic growth with an in-depth look at the latest developments in broadband deployment, smart grid technologies, digital privacy, spectrum access, and more.

Members of the Science Debate founding team will be participating in a special roundtable discussion about the importance of elevating science in public policy, along with Dan Byers of the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee and Marc Stanley of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Technology Innovation Program.

Tech Policy Summit offers you a chance to network with an exclusive group of thought leaders while gaining a better understanding of how the innovation policies of the Obama administration and Congress stand to impact the tech sector. Featuring over 60 speakers from industry, government, NPOs and academia.

Registration is only $295 when you sign up with the 4SCIENCE Discount Code, and a portion of your fees will be donated to ScienceDebate.Org."

Fw'ed by
Dov Henis
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/economy-collapse-cure-delusion-799133.html
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=419

On Cosmos And Life Evolutions,
PS To
On Humans,And Other Materials, Evolutions
And On The Sad State Of Life,And Other, Sciences In 2009

A. Re "Stanford researchers show adaptation plays a significant role in human evolution"
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/su-srs011409.php

1) "For years researchers have puzzled over whether adaptation plays a major role in human evolution or whether most changes are due to neutral, random selection of genes and traits."

- I have been presenting evidence for years that adaptation, i.e. culture, is the driver of evolution of all life including human and, yes, of all other materials, and that genetic evolution is generally biased, not random.

2) "Geneticists at Stanford now...show adaptation, the process by which organisms change to better fit their environment, is indeed a large part of human genomic evolution."

- Shortly after retiring from industrial consulting (1956 - 1998) I started investigating the state of comprehension of the nature of life and of its evolution and I published evidence and conclusion that culture is the driver of all genomic evolution.

3) "Others have looked for the signal of widespread adaptation and couldn't find it...now...we were able to detect the adaptation signatures quite clearly"

- I found the evidence many years ago and presented it clearly in my postings.

4) "All genetic mutations start out random, but those that are beneficial to an organism's success in their environment are directly selected for and quickly perpetuate throughout the population, providing a uniform, traceable signature."

- NO NO NO. The drive of evolution is NOT RANDOM followed by survival selection. It is biased, as explained in my "Life's Manifest" and elaborated in my posts about the role of culture in evolution.

5) "Humans have a very complex history from traveling around the globe, and the human genome is also highly structured, making it complicated and difficult to work with, he said."

- The human genome, like all other genomes, is complicated, the genome being a multi-genes organism, an organism that consists of a cooperative commune of the smaller Earth's primal organisms, namely of the genes.

6)"Adaptation becomes widespread in the population very quickly," Petrov said. "Whereas neutral random mutation doesn't and would not have the selective sweep signature."

- Bravo. This happens to be a correct statement. Random mutations are mechanical accidents that the organism may or may not overcome to survive.

I stop here. No patience nor interest to continue picking at each of the following paras. Just sadly frustrated at The Sad State Of Life Sciences In 2009...

B. PS: On Cosmic Energy And Mass Evolutions

As mass is just another face of energy it is commonsensible to regard not only life, but mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

It therefore ensues that whereas the expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are - overall - continuously converting their original pre-inflation mass back to energy, the overall evolution within them, within the clusters, is in the opposite direction, temporarily constrained energy packages are precariuosly forming and "doing best" to survive as long as "possible"...

Respectfully yours,

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

Humanity Needs Comprehension And Acceptance Of Science.
Humanity Does Not Need Ace Communicators And Politicians.

I. Science needs ace communicators and politicians
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42644/title/Science_needs_ace_communicators_and_politicians_

II. SCM, Science Creed Manifest (June 5 2003)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=142

SCM is a suggested international online educational program for promoting rational, science-based , over the present virtual-reality and faith-belief based, civilizations.

From: Dov Henis
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003
To: few prominent scientists (USA and Europe)
Subject: May this project be of interest to you?

May the project outlined below be of interest to you?

I do not seek financial gain/involvement in the proposed project. I simply posit that it warrants serious consideration...

Dov Henis
Hod-HaSharon, Israel
(the message was not acknowledged...)

III. SCM PROJECT OUTLINE

A. Extend my brief article at http://www.biobitfield.com/henis/abc_of_life.html to a Scientist Creed Manifest (SCM) urging tolerance and cooperation between all human communities on Earth. The SCM will comprise the following main themes, written in very brief format and in plainest non-professional language, yet scientifically updated :

(1) Description of Earth’s position in our galaxy, of Milky Way galaxy and its position in the cosmos, and of the origin and state of the cosmos.

(2) Inter-relationship of genomes of all Earth organisms with reference to comparative genomics and to history of Earth’s life evolution.

(3) All phenomena of life are fractal, from in-cell to comprehensive total Earth life, including all aspects of all human societies.

(4) Life is a "bubble of energy" system, initiated by energy, collects and stores energy, in a direction opposite the universal thermodynamic drive towards a state of ever dissipating-diluting energy.

(5) The emergence of human culture and civilization is a Life evolutionary revolution similar to the emergence of cells, with the novelties that culture functions for Humans as protein toolings function for genes-genomes , and that humans modify their circumstances according to their needs rather than become adopted to changing circumstances.

B. A Scientist Creed Manifest might become a germinating and growing seed of promotion of worldwide tolerance and cooperation between communities:

1. “Scientists” are persons learned in science or investigating scientifically.
“Scientism” is a method or doctrine characteristic of scientists, or the proposition that methods of natural sciences should be used in all areas of investigation.

2. If all “scientists” would have embraced “scientism” and thus be “truly scientific” most scientists would find themselves sharing similar opinions or attitudes in regards to most matters or issues. However, the fact is that “scientists” are not apart from non-scientists in regards to opinions or attitudes about a host of matters or issues; together with non-scientists they comprise disagreeing or even hostile groups, especially in most opinion- or attitude-groups regarding social, moral, ethical or religious issues.

3. The two main reasons for this situation are (a) that social, moral, ethical, religious and other humanistic issues are, unlike physical matters, not considered scientific thus not analyzed nor assessed and treated scientifically, and (b) that many or most scientists have not adopted scientism concurrently with acquisition of various levels of technical expertise in the field(s) of their interest.

4. I posit (a) that many or most scientists may be persuaded that each and all humanistic matters and issues are, for humans and for human societies, natural sciences that are functional for humans in the manner that intra-and inter-cell proteinaceous accessories are functional for cellularized genomes, and (b) that scientists embracing and practicing scientism would inevitably hold and share similar opinions or attitudes about humanistic matters and issues, and/or otherwise would not be hostile towards others holding opinions or attitudes different than theirs.

C. The SCM will be a continuous cooperative project of the worldwide scientific community. Consequent to completion of its first draft it will be updated once a year:

1. Its reason, purpose, scope and format will be presented in a dedicated web site, which will be referred to in major scientific printed and electronic networks.

2. Its first draft and its following annual updates will be composed on-line with the assistance of welcome suggestions.

3. Only its on-line editorial staff will be paid; all other contributors, reviewers and peers will serve and function voluntarily.

end

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

Again Passe Sleep Mantra

A. The Scientist, April 2009

"Disappearing Before Dawn

Gene expression studies are lending support to a new, somewhat counterintuitive hypothesis for why every animal sleeps. KELLY RAE CHI visits the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where scientists are gathering evidence suggesting that we need sleep to prune back synapses, which tend to increase in strength throughout the day."

B. No End Of Passe Sleep Mantra

A. "Sleep may clear the decks for next day’s learning"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42456/title/Sleep_may_clear_the_decks_for_next_day%E2%80%99s_learning
Two separate studies suggest that sleep reduces connections between neurons in fruit flies’ brains.

B. "Missing piece of plant clock found", about "the underlying biochemical mechanisms that control plant clocks". 2009 Passe Mantra.
http://www.physorg.com/news156087384.html

C. No End Of Passe Sleep Mantra

Future research reports will re-affirm, in sophisticated sciencelingo, that the rooster indeed brings on sunrise, or that Gazania flowers switch the sun on and off.

It's about time to understand the origin and function of sleep. There is no "biochemical mechanisms that control bio-clocks". Bio-clocks are products of the innate active-sleep pattern of genes and genomes, parents of all Earth's Life, since in their days of genesis and early evolution direct sunlight was the only source of energy in pre-metabolism Earth life. Melatonin and some proteins are dark-and-light que signals evolved by later monocellular communities, pre-multicellular organisms, for timing intercells clean-up and maintenance processes when intracell genes-genome processes are inactive.

Dov Henis
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1
(Comments From The 22nd Century)

On Consciousness

A. "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness" by Alva Noe
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42642/title/Book_Review_Out_of_Our_Heads_Why_You_Are_Not_Your_Brain%2C_and_Other_Lessons_from_the_Biology_of_Consciousness_by_Alva_No%C3%AB
Review by Bruce Bower

B. "Memory, Sentience and Consciousness"
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=174

As gravity is THE manifestation of the onset of the cosmic inflation cataclysm and consequent universe evolution, so sentience is the manifestation of the onset of consciousness and its consequent neural system evolution.

My definitions, from Merriam-Webster:

Sentience = state of elementary or undifferenciated consciousness as distinguished from perception and thought.

Consciousness = the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself and/or of an external object, state, or fact.

I suggest that ALL forms of life possess the attribute of sentience, and that from the base towards the most evolved life forms sentience has been evolving into ever more complex form, consciousness.

C. "Life Is Simpler Than They Tell Us"
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/life-is-simpler-than-they-tell-us-817144.html

Evolution of Earth life:
Genes to Genomes to Monocellular to Multicellular Organisms;
Direct Sunlight Only To Metabolic Energy, Too;
Triptophan To Serotonin To Melatonin To Neural System.

Now we can appreciate the fractal nature of life's evolution. It is ever-continuous ever-enhanced ever-complexed cooperation. Now we can understand why, and grosso modo how, all the organs and processes and signals found in multicelled organisms have their origins in the monocells communities. And this includes the functions of serotonin and melatonin and, yes, the evolution of neural cells and the neural systems with their intricate cellular outer-membrane shapes and functionings and with their high energy consumption requirements.

D. "Life And Culture Are Virtual Realities"
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/life-and-culture-are-virtual-realities-794583.html

Culture is the totality of ways of the organisms' dealing with (reaction to, manipulation of, exploitation of) its environment. Culture is a biological entity selected for survival of the genome as means of extending its exploitation capabilities of the out-of-cell circumstances, consequent to the earlier evolution and selection of the genome's organ, its outermost cell membrane, for controlling the inside-of-cell genes'-commune environmental circumstances.

Culture is the ubiqitous biological entity that drives Earth life evolution, by imprinting genetics, by continuously modifying genes' expressions.

"Spiritual matters" are virtual reality affairs. They are feasible only for living organisms that have a culture, i.e. that have a pattern of sensings and reactions to the sensings. Genes, and therefore also genomes, are organisms and display virtual reality phenomena, therefore also multicelled organisms,including humans, display such "spiritual" phenomena.

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

Views Differences On Genomes Differences

A. "Shared Differences"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/42620/title/Shared_Differences
The architecture of our genomes is anything but basic.

B. From http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=401

- "Science Must Be Rescued From Its Guilds", from its host of technicians, politicians and business entrepreneurs.

- "The Evolutionary 'Role' Of Gene Variants, Of Genes And Human Conceit, And Of Inadequate Comprehension".

- "On "Social Genes" And More 'Pseudosophisticated Gibberish".

- And "CNV, Professional Cataract And Verbiage"

C. Views Differences On Genomes Differences,

on CNV, Copy Number Variation, and on cfv, community family variation:

CNV is about ORGANISMS, Genes, and about their communal associations, Genomes, and about the state of these organisms and their communes as they are always undergoing evolution.

They have been and are undergoing Darwinian evolution since they have phased, due to then prevailing energetic circumstances, from chemical olygomers into prolyferous genes...

"Design by genes" does not start with the individual genes, the prime organisms. It atarts with their in-cell community association, with the second level organisms, the genomes. It starts with their Culture, with the reaction-manipulation-adaptation they select for surviving in their circumstances. This selection info is fed back to the genes, who consequently select their specific capabilities-expressions accordingly.

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

Who-What Is The Stemness In Stem Cells

A. "New study yields clue to how stem cells form"
http://www.physorg.com/news159106629.html

B. From "What Makes a Stem Cell a Stem Cell?"
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/10_02/stem_cells.shtml

- A stem cell, by definition, can renew itself and can generate myriad types of specialized cells. But the specific genes that confer these properties remain unknown.

- the Harvard researchers propose several essential attributes that they believe underlie the stem cell's ability to reproduce itself and to generate different types of specialized cells. Key among these is the ability to resist stress from the environment by activating enzymes that repair DNA and detoxify cells. Stem cells also express genes important in regulating the cell cycle and in helping cells to communicate

- It may be some time, however, before researchers fully understand what constitutes "stemness". According to some researchers, genomic analyses may be yielding too much information.

C. So, again, Who-What Is The Stemness In Stem Cells?

The stemness is a capability-property of the stem-genome. There are no "genes that confer stemness properties" on the innate-virgin stem genome, on the not-yet ever task-committed genome.

And both the genome and its communal genes membership are organisms. Plain and simple and obviously commonsensical.

And in order to confirm stemability on a genome that has already been task-committed it is necesary to uncommit it.

Dov Henis Sep. 2, 2008
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35776/title/Stem_cells,_show_your_face

Dov Henis Oct. 2, 2008
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36881/title/Safer_creation_of_stem_cells_

Yes. Genes Are Organisms.

DNA (and RNA) genes are organisms. RNA toolings of DNA genes were pre-DNA archaic genes, now serving as tools-organisms. And some proteins are cues for past-programmed genes' expressions.

It is necessary to overcome a reflective resistance to conceive certain polymers as living, organisms. However, the plain simple fact of life is that genes are organisms, the primal organisms of Earth, the LIFE of Earth. All other organisms, regardless of complexity and including us, evolve and live temporarily to promote and maintain the genes, to promote and maintain the temporary store of constrained energy at Earth's biosphere.

D. And Earth's biosphere came into being and exists within the Evolution of Cosmic Energy And Mass

As mass is just another face of energy it is commonsensible to regard not only life, but mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

It therefore ensues that whereas the expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are - overall - continuously converting "their share" of original pre-inflation mass back to energy, the overall evolution within them, within the clusters, is in the opposite direction, temporarily constrained energy packages are precariuosly forming and "doing best" to survive as long as "possible"...

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

Unusual Microbes And Life In General

A. "Antarctic ecosystem holds unusual microbes"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42853/title/Antarctic_ecosystem_holds__unusual_microbes
Long isolated deep under a glacier, life thrives in dark, salty water by breathing iron and eating sulfates.

B. From "Who-What Is The Stemness In Stem Cells"
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/140/122.page#2067

A planet's biosphere comes into being and exists, within the Evolution of Cosmic Energy-Mass.

As mass is just another face-form of energy it is commonsensible to regard life, and mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

The expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are - overall - continuously converting "their share" of original pre-inflation mass back to energy. As cosmic expansion continues the mass-contents of the clusters decreases.

However, within the clusters the overall evolution is in the opposite direction. Temporarily constrained energy packages, such as mass or black holes or life, are forming and "doing best" to survive as long as "possible"...

C. From "Life's Manifest"
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

Life: 1. a format of temporarily constrained energy, retained in temporary constrained genetic energy packages in forms of genes, genomes and organisms 2. a real virtual affair that pops in and out of existence in its matrix, which is the energy constrained in a planet's biosphere.

Organism: a temporary self-replicable constrained-energy genetic system that supports and maintains a planet's biosphere by maintenance of genes.

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

What Makes A Planet An Earth Counterpart

A. "Smallest exoplanet yet is found"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43038/title/Smallest_exoplanet_yet_is_found
Finding a planet just under twice Earth's size puts astronomers closer to discovering an Earth counterpart.

B. What is "an Earth counterpart"?

An "Earth counterpart" may be either a still "pre-lifed" or an already "bio-sphered" planet.

The features that would render a pre-lifed planet a pre-lifed Earth counterpart would include the environmental and compositional parameters of the 4.6 BYA Earth.

The features that would render a bio-sphered planet a bio-sphered Earth counterpart would include a bio-sphere comprising the Planet's primal organisms, its genes, and the chemical constituents of their evolved organisms, where:

Organism = a self-replicable temporary constrained-energy genetic system that supports and maintains a planet's biosphere by maintenance of its genes.

Dov Henis
(comments from the 22nd century)
"Life's Manifest"
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

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I'm gratified and glad to have just been reborn...

Dov Henis

PS: And I would be glad to have my ID changed into the above ID DovTS1019153

New 2009 S&E Budgets Delusions
Science Budgets Look Rosy, AAAS Finds, May 1st 2009

A. AAAS considers present science budgets rosy,
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43402/title/Science_budgets_look_rosy%2C_AAAS_finds
"The president and Congress have collaborated in targeting substantial increases “Unprecedented” for federal investments in R&D in Science and Engineering fields this year."

B. Are matters bad now because S&E budgets have been inadequate?

Have inadequate budgets deteriorated or collapsed all our recent affairs? Did a shortage of money bring our world to a grinding slowdown?

Witness the May 2009 sad states of our foreign affairs, of our economy, social and education affairs and of our basic/life-societal-related science fields. Have they deteriorated or collapsed due to inadequate budgets? And will added fresh money and higher budgets correct-improve the state of affairs that have deteriorated?

C. It is our 20th century "technology culture" that deteriorated and collapsed, and not due to low budgets.

Elementary. Has any joint public-sciense study been commissioned, conducted and its analysis published of how-why the collapse evolved? And has any joint public-science group studied the analysis and suggested-recommended cultural modifications?

Why and how might higher S&E budgets rescue us and place us on a different, promising course?

Wondering,

Dov Henis

Animate And Inanimate Matter Have Something In Common!
Read All About It! Unbelievable!
The Wheel Is Invented!
Living And Non-living Matter Follow Same Rules?

A. Can Living And Non-living Follow Same Rules? Unifying The Animate And Inanimate Designs Of Nature
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428103104.htm

B. "22nd Century Conception Of Unified Field Theory And Evolution"

1. EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

2. The following brief essays present the 22nd century comprehension of evolution. They preserve Darwin's name in reference to Life Evolution in respect and appreciation of Darwin's promotion of the concept of evolution in life.

Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

Culture, A Ubiquitous Biological Entity
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/98.page

Life And Darwinian Evolution, 21st Century Comprehension
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page

Rethink Unified Field Theory And Evolution
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/60/122.page#982

C. On Cosmic Energy And Mass Evolutions
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=25398&st=15&#entry408520
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=25437&st=0&#entry408242

As mass is just another face of energy it is commonsensible to regard not only life, but mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

It therefore ensues that whereas the expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are - overall - continuously converting "their share" of original pre-inflation mass back to energy, the overall evolution WITHIN them, within the clusters, is in the opposite direction, temporarily constrained energy packages such as black holes, biospheres and other energy-storing-mass-formats are precariuosly forming and "doing best" to survive as long as "possible"...

Respectfully yours,

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)

21st Century Science Moves On!
Researchers Confirm Science Mantra

"Now we see that genetic diversity goes along with diverse culture"
What A Thrilling Fresh Discovery!

From "Expansive genetic diversity in Africa revealed"

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43377/title/Expansive_genetic_diversity_in_Africa_revealed

Largest genetic study of African populations yields clues about the origin of modern humans and the ancestry of African-Americans

- Until now, most genetic studies have used data from just a few African groups that were assumed to reflect Africa’s genetic diversity. But the new research shows that “no single African population is representative of the diversity of the continent,” says study coauthor Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. (Unbelievably profond scientific observation-statement. Dov Henis)

- The team found that different African populations had differences in their gene sequences. “We knew that African populations were diverse in culture, art, religious ideas. Now we see that genetic diversity goes along these same lines,” comments Roy King of Stanford School of Medicine.
(Would you have believed this thrilling fresh discovery? Dov Henis)

- The study is a good starting point, the researchers say, hoping to provide a framework for others to build on... (To keep piling more and more pseudoscientific gibberish. Dov Henis)

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)

http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/genome-linked-with-culture-812433.html

Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

PS1:

I can't get over it!

Those "scientists"-"researchers" planned their "research" on the basis of a pre-Copernicus mantra according to which genetics drive-mold culture. They carried out their "research" and drew their conclusions and have visions of expanding the "research" - all in accordance with this mantra...

What's happening in "science" nowadays? Today's "science" is not what science used to be when it was science...

Wondering,

Dov Henis

PS2:

"Those "scientists"-"researchers" planned their "research" on the basis of a pre-Copernicus mantra according to which genetics drive-mold culture".

I don't want to expand on this, but BTW this mantra, even if ignorantly and unwittingly, is the foundation mantra of racism...

Sadly,

Dov Henis

Sleep, Health And Immunity
Brief Deep Sleeps With Drowsiness And Muscle Power Loss Hallucinations
Linked To Immune system

A. Narcolepsy linked to immune system
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43455/title/Narcolepsy_linked_to_immune_system
Genome association study finds a second connection between the sleep disorder and the body's disease-fighting apparatus

B. Dopamine Imbalance: Technology Or Science? (Dov Henis, 9 Aug 2008)
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/all-about-parkinsons-disease-dopamine-levels-427763.html

1) Dopamine imbalance triggers Parkinson's disease and drug addiction, two opposite diseases
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/nu-wdf080808.php

"...explained the phenomenon using the analogy of a car..."

2) The genome is an organism, not a contrivance

I suggest, again and again, that effects of cell's environments on its functionality be considered and assessed with comprehension that the OCM, the multifunctional Outer Cell Membrane, is but an evolved organ of the organism that lives and functions within it, the living team, the genome.

The genome is a multigenes organism consisting of a cooperative commune of its interdependent member genes. Each of its members has its own constitutional-functional background history, and its own tolerance-reaction to environments-signals reaching it via the functional membranes around the genome. Decisions are made within the OCM most probably as conjectured in

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/122.page#373

Planning and assessment of research work in life sciences, especially in cell level matters, should take this recent comprehension into account...

One day, maybe soon, science will arrive at the comprehension of life and the nature of genes-genome...

C. Circadian Rhythm-Metabolism Link Is Self-Explanatory (Dov Henis, 23 Dec 2008)
http://www.physorg.com/news136122147.html

1) Circadian rhythm-metabolism link discovered
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/07/24/circadian.rhythm.metabolism.link.discovered

The findings also suggest that proper sleep and diet could help maintain or rebuild the CLOCK-SIRT1 equilibrium and may help explain why lack of proper rest or disruption in our normal sleep patterns is known to increase hunger, which can lead to obesity and related illnesses and can accelerate the aging process.

2) Circadian-rhythm is the genes' innate rest time,

which - together with life's chirality - are the earliest evidences of Darwinian life evolution, the evolution of the primal, 1st stratum, Earth organisms, the genes.

D. From "SC displaced more easily when off-duty" (Dov Henis 10 Oct 2008)
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55081/

"It is unclear why the stem cells leave their niche during a patient's time of rest"?

SC are more easily displaced during the organism's rest time simply because their genes and genome are off-duty then, part of the duty is being on-call at the specific site where it is:

E. Life's Chirality And Circadian Rhythm, Evidence Of Updated Darwinian Evolution

1) Updated life's concepts:
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/20/122.page#423

- Earth life consists of three strata: genes are primal organisms, genomes are evolved 2nd
stratum organisms, and cellular organisms are evolved 3rd stratum.

- Life's evolution started at genesis, on life's day one.

- Life's evolution is not random. It is biased, driven by organisms' cultures.

2) Earliest evidences of updated Darwinian evolution:

- Life's chirality
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/122.page#387
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=180&#entry327715

- Circadian rhythm
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=135&#entry301299

F. Significance Of Hour-Timing In Medical Treatment (Dov Henis,30 March 2009)

1) Vaccine could protect against virus that causes birth defects
http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/41874/title/Vaccine_could_protect_against_virus_that_causes_birth_defects

An experimental vaccine is shown effective half the time it's administered in stopping cytomegalovirus infection in women in their child-bearing years.

No vaccine currently exists for cytomegalovirus, which can cause birth defects when it infects a pregnant woman. Because of this risk, vaccine researchers have targeted the virus for decades without any clear benefit until now.

This is the first vaccine that really shows prevention from infection with cytomegalovirus.

2) Medication's efficiency rate might differ with hour-of-day of administration
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/life-is-simpler-than-they-tell-us-817144.html

I suggest that the efficiency rate of the vaccine might differ depending on the hour of day at which it is administered. This since the genome-genes of night-sleepers are inactive mostly circa 2AM and the levels of serotonin-melatonine are highest then, signalling a call for intercell maintenance time.

Epilogue:
Circadian rhythm-metabolism link is self-explanatory, and new "findings" are not required for suggesting that proper sleep-and-diet could help maintain or rebuild organism's "equilibrium" and for explaining why lack of proper rest, or disruption in our normal sleep patterns, is known to cause several unhealthy things in us and accelerate our aging process.

Suggesting,

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)

More On The Economy Collapse Cure Delusion
2010 "Science" Budgets, Another Delusion
"Science" Share In Economy Collapse Evolution Not Assessed

A. "Money Printing Will NOT Cure The Technology Culture Greed Cancer" and
"Real And Virtual Energy, And Keynesian Salvation Prospects", at
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/economy-collapse-cure-delusion-799133.html

B. "Science" Share In Economy Collapse Evolution Not Assessed

It is not only what "Science" has been doing, but - much more important - what it has not been doing, what it neglected or avoided within the evolution of the 20th century Technology Culture.

IMO the AAAS has turned itself and other "Science-Organizations-Establishments" into essentially an American (and some international affiliates) guild-union of workers in Technology-Related industries, academies and organizations, and has turned Science into a "Popular Companion Religion" in the service of the 20th century Technology Culture. It has turned peer review into a tool of corrupt “Subversive Activities Control Board”, where the corruption is not inherent in the tool, but in the nature of the Science Establishment and in the characteristics of obsequious members and functionaries.

Not one in the "Science Establishments" has raised the question where were the "Scientists" (what-who are they?) during the years in which the Technology Culture has been reigning supreme and has been evolving into its recent collapse. "Scientists" (what-who are they?) obviously think that the Science Establishment had-has no share whatsoever in the evolution of the collapse. Most "Scientists" (what-who are they?) selfrighteously think that increase of "science-technology budget" is essential for repairing the collapse, and imply that the collapse might have been prevented if their budgets were higher...

The disappointment is that the "Science Establishments" have not examined their own contribution to the collapse, their own 100-years continuous deterioration into servents of the Technology Culture, and into the ludicruos inflated self-esteem image that many of them have rightly earned and project today.

Sadly and respectfully,

Dov Henis

Again: Origin of Neural System
Monocells' Community Culture to Multicellular Organisms' Neural System

A. "Identification of a key molecular pathway required for brain neural circuit formation"
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/idrc-ioa051509.php

B. From "Life Is Simpler Than They Tell Us"

http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/life-is-simpler-than-they-tell-us-817144.html

Evolution:
Genes to Genomes to Monocellular to Multicellular Organisms;
Direct Sunlight to Metabolic Energy, Too;
Triptophan to Serotonin to Melatonin to Neural System.

Monocellular Communities to Multicellular Organisms, Monocells' Communities Culture to Multicellular Organisms' Neural System

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)

Life's Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

Updated Life's Manifest May 2009

Recapitulation of some earlier notes on the
Scientific Comprehension Of The Origin, Drive, Nature And Purpose Of Life

A. Uniqueness Of science among human artifacts

ALL aspects of our culture are, of course, anthropoartifacts, including science. Yet among those artifacts science has a distinct uniqueness for us.

During the recent several centuries in the course of human history humans have been developing science at an accelerating rate as a provider of convincing, ever closer approaching, approximate models of the real world.

B. Origin and nature of life

Astronomically there are two "physics", a "classical physics" system of and between galactic clusters, and a "quantum physics" system WITHIN the galactic clusters.

The onset of big-bang's inflation started gravity, followed by formation of galactic clusters that behave as Newtonian bodies while continuously reconverting their shares of pre-inflation masses back to energy, that continuously fuels their ongoing expansion, and of endless intertwined evolutions WITHIN the clusters in attempts to resist this reconversion.

As mass is just another face of energy it is commonsensible to regard not only life, but mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

It therefore ensues that whereas the in-space expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are - overall - continuously converting their original pre-inflation mass back to energy, the overall evolution WITHIN them, within the clusters, is in the opposite direction, temporarily constrained energy packages such as black holes and biospheres and other energy-storing mass-formats are precariuosly forming and "doing best" to survive as long as "possible"...

C. The drive and nature of Earth life

Earth life Genesis, formation of the first genes, was a phenomenon of serendipitous occurrence, in a supportive environment, of 'favourably-coursed' energy potential between in-coming sun's radiation and polymerizing-precipitating RNA-related oligomeric configuration.

The drive of Earth life and of its evolution is to enhance the functionality and survivability of Earth's genes, in order to maintain and enhance Earth-biosphere's temporary constrained energy storage and to maintain the biosphere BIO as long as possible.

It is the genes, life's prime strata organisms, that evolve, and the evolution of genomes, the 2nd stratum of life, and of the 3rd life stratum cellular organisms, is an interenhancing consequence of their genes' evolution.

D. The formation of Earth life

Earth Life: 1. a format of temporarily constrained energy, retained in temporary constrained genetic energy packages in forms of genes, genomes and organisms 2. a real virtual affair that pops in and out of existence in its matrix, which is the energy constrained in Earth's biosphere.

Earth organism: a temporary self-replicable constrained-energy genetic system that supports and maintains Earth's biosphere by proliferating and maintenance of genes.

Gene: the primal Earth's organism. (1st stratum organism)

Genome: a multigenes organism consisting of a cooperative commune of its member genes. (2nd stratum organism)

Cellular organisms: mono- or multi-celled Earth organisms. (3rd stratum organism)

E. Update of underlying life sciences conception is thus feasible

- First were independent individual genes, Earth's primal organisms.

- Genes aggregated cooperatively into genomes, multigenes organisms, with genomes' organs.

- Simultaneously or consequently genomes evolved protective-functional membranes, organs.

- Then followed cellular organisms, with a variety of outer-cell membrane shapes and
functionalities.

This conception is a scientific, NOT TECHNICAL, life-science innovation.

It is tomorrow's comprehension of life and of its evolution.

IT IS FRAUGHT WITH INTRIGUING DARWINIAN EVOLUTION IMPLICATIONS.

IT IS FRAUGHT WITH INTRIGUING TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS POTENTIALS.

F. The purpose of OUR, human, life

The purpose of OUR life and of its promotion is ours to formulate and set. It derives solely from our cognition.

Suggesting,

Dov Henis
(Comments from 22nd century)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU?num=5&max=160&start=0

Junk DNA, Junk Body Parts
It Is The Lifehood Of Genes That Makes All Organisms Alive
Are Parts Of Our Humanoid Body Superfluous Junk

A. "Research team finds important role for junk DNA"
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/28/32C04/

B. From "Aging Seen Without The Emperor'S New Clothes"
http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/37382/title/Old_age_causes_problems_for_gut_cells
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/aging-seen-without-the-emperors-new-clothes-808441.html

Right they are: "Nearly all organisms experience aging". But why "nearly"?

Why doesn't "science" accept the obvious fact that genes are organisms and "experience aging", too?

Not only yeast, worms and people. Also genes and the interdependent-genes-communes, genomes. Theye are both organisms. They are alive. It is their "lifehood" that makes us and all life forms "alive".

By plain common sense - my favorite scientific approach - they should also be "experiencing aging"...

C. If it is not the lifehood of genes that makes each and all organisms alive,

what otherwise makes each and all organisms alive?

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Updated Life's Manifest May 2009
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=495&#entry412704
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/140/122.page#2321