“BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police on Wednesday released photos an English-speaking teenage boy who wandered into the city nine months ago saying he had been living for the last five years in the forest with his father. Police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said all attempts to identify the boy since he emerged in the German capital on Sept. 5 have been unsuccessful, and they are now hoping the release of his photo may produce some leads. “We have checked his DNA against all missing person reports, sent the data to Interpol so that they could check it internationally, but unfortunately without any success,” Neuendorf said. The boy has told authorities his father called him “Ray” and that he was born June 20, 1994, but claims not to know his last name or where he’s from. He said his mother, Doreen, died in a car accident when he was 12 and after that he and his father, Ryan, took to the forest. He said they wandered using maps and a compass, staying in tents or caves overnight. He told authorities that after his father died in August, 2011, he buried him in the forest and then walked five days north before ending up in Berlin, and showed up at city hall. Investigators have been unable to confirm any details about a fatal car accident that matches up with Ray’s story, however, and haven’t been able to find the body of the father — raising “serious doubts” about the story. “There are many question marks,” Neuendorf said. He is now being taken care of by youth services, and is going to school. When he first appeared, Ray spoke English and a few words of German, but has picked up more German fast, Neuendorf said. He has also quickly adapted to city life and technology, using a laptop and his cell phone with no problems. [Related: Mother, son separated, begin 25-year search] “Everything gives the impression that he was not far away from civilization for years,” Neuendorf said.
One tends to agree with Erich von Daniken‘s view of the Universe and the Earth as put forth in his Book Chariot of The Gods.
His premise is that the earth was visited by Extra terrestrial who keep visiting the Earth.
They have modified our Genes to evolve as they would like us to evolve.
He quotes extensively from World Mythologies and History to support his claims.
In fact he compares the description of the devastation caused by the Brahmastra with that of the after effects of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They read eerily similar.
Book is worth reading to get a different perspective of theEarth’s evolution.
New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs — monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans — may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. “We would be better off not meeting them,” concludes the study, led by Ronald Breslow, University Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology at Columbia University.
The study focuses on the century-old mystery of why the building blocks of terrestrial amino acids (which make up proteins), sugars, and the genetic materials DNA and RNA exist mainly in one orientation or shape.
There are two possible orientations, left and right, which mirror each other in the same way as hands. This is known as “chirality.” In order for life to arise, proteins, for instance, must contain only one chiral form of amino acids, left or right. With the exception of a few bacteria, amino acids in all life on Earth have the left-handed orientation. Most sugars have a right-handed orientation. How did that so-called homochirality, the predominance of one chiral form, happen?
Breslow describes evidence supporting the idea that the unusual amino acids carried to a lifeless Earth by meteorites about 4 billion years ago set the pattern for normal amino acids with the L-geometry, the kind in terrestial proteins, and how those could lead to D-sugars of the kind in DNA
For your action , every one else is responsible, not you!
Now recent Research has found that your behaviour of ‘being nice’ is determined by Hormones like Oxytocin.
Why do they affect the individual this way?
None knows for sure.
However it is proved that you behave the way you do, because you can not help it.
Srrimad Bhagavad Gita, a Sacred text of the Hindus explains it thus.
During the Discourse of The Bhagavad Gita ,Lord Krishna is interrupted by Arjuna thus.
‘You say all problems arising out of Birth and Death are due to actions performed, for actions yield results, Good /Bad.
Some actions produce agreeable results and some not so agreeable.
Good actions lead to Realization of God/Reality .
Bad actions lead to Birth.
Based on this a man is born and goes through the Cycle of Births and Deaths.
This Cycle is because I act.
Were I not to Act/perform actions , I will not attract Sin.
When I perform No Action, no results-period.
No Birth, No pain, No Death.
Lord Krishna advises him with a smile.
‘Do you think that there is any thing I need any thing in this world or in the other worlds,
Or is there anything that I do not have?
Yet I Perform my Duties.
A man can never remain doing nothing.
Even attempting to shut down every thing, you breathe,you think.
All these are actions.
None can be totally relieved of Actions, voluntary or other wise.
Once born , he is controlled by Three dispositions-Gunas.
They force you to act.
Sathva,Wise and Contented.
Rajas, Active and aggressive.
Tamas , inert and ignorant.
These three interact constantly at all times in one’s Life.
Therefore to think of ‘doing nothing’ is an Illusion and definitely not possible.
One behaves the way one does, because he can not help it.
But this can be channelized and regulated.
*This is The Message of Lord Krishna.
All our actions are predetermined.
Now to the Story on hand.
Poster
The study found human kindness is not just evoked by good examples set by parents. In fact, some people are born with generous genes that incline them towards niceness. Previous studies have linked the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin to the way people treat each other, especially in close relationships. Scientists already know oxytocin promotes maternal behaviour, with people exposed to the hormone in lab experiments demonstrating greater sociability.. Researchers at the University of Buffalo and the University of California in the United States wanted to apply these previous findings to a larger scale to see if these chemicals promote other forms of nice behaviour, such as giving money to charity.
The “nice” hormones work by binding people’s cells through receptors. Certain genes determine how receptive people are to these hormones. As part of the study, participants were asked questions about their attitudes toward civic duty, such as whether people have a moral duty to report a crime, other people and whether the world is generally a good or bad place, and about their charitable activities, like giving blood or going to PTA meetings. Of those surveyed, 711 people provided a sample of saliva for DNA analysis, that showed what form they had of the oxytocin and vasopressin receptors. Results, published in the journal Psychological Science, showed people have “nice” versions of the genes, which when combined with the subjects’ views on the world, make them more likely to help others. Professor Michel Poulin, of the University of Buffalo, said: “The study found that these genes combined with people’s perceptions of the world as a more or less threatening place to predict generosity. “Specifically, study participants who found the world threatening were less likely to help others – unless they had versions of the receptor genes that are generally associated with niceness. “These ‘nicer’ versions of the genes allow you to overcome feelings of the world being threatening and help other people in spite of those fears. “The fact that the genes predicted behaviour only in combination with people’s experiences and feelings about the world isn’t surprising because most connections between DNA and social behavior are complex. “So if one of your neighbours seems really generous, caring, civic-minded kind of person, while another seems more selfish, tight-fisted and not as interested in pitching in, their DNA may help explain why one of them is nicer than the other. “We aren’t saying we’ve found the niceness gene, but we have found a gene that makes a contribution. What I find so interesting is the fact that it only makes a contribution in the presence of certain feelings people have about the world around them.”
At the Porsafillo Preschool Academy, all applicants must now submit a DNA analysis of their children.
The preschool is housed in a modern glass and steel building designed by IM Pei. It’s situated in a leafy corner of the Upper West Side. On a recent afternoon, Headmaster Rebecca Unsinn showed off “Porsafillo Pre,” as it’s called.
“Over here, we have computer labs, C++ learning, which of course, as I’m sure you know, is a language of computers,” she says. Wait, computer language? These preschoolers are learning C++?
“Oh, absolutely they are,” Unsinn says. “And they’re very good at it.”
That’s not the only language they’re learning; all the children are also enrolled in a Mandarin Chinese immersion program.
More than 12,000 applications pour into Unsinn’s office each fall. That’s 12,000 hopefuls for just 32 spots a year. It makes Porsafillo Pre the most competitive preschool in the United States.
So in a bid to weed out the kids who have no chance, the school decided to require a DNA test for all applicants. Before she joined the school in 2009, Unsinn was a child neurologist. She was hired specifically to implement this new policy.
Her team is looking for genetic markers that indicate future excellence — things like intelligence, confidence and other leadership traits.
One expectant couple has gone to great lengths to get their future child a spot at Porsafillo.
At the New Amsterdam Memorial Hospital, Richard Tromper and Elizabeth Tauschen are ready for their test. Elizabeth is 24 weeks pregnant, and the couple is applying for admission to Porsafillo for the fall of 2015.
“I went to Princeton,” Tromper says. “I was lucky, I mean, I got into Princeton, I worked hard. But if our child gets into this preschool, he or she IS going.”
Porsafillo Pre is the express lane, the couple says, a one-way ticket to success.
From Tauschen’s blood test, scientists will isolate her unborn baby’s genetic makeup then pass their findings to the admissions office at Porsafillo. The school has an exclusive agreement with the hospital. Tauschen and Tromper are taken into a room beside the lab, the blood is drawn, and the vial is then escorted immediately into the lab. About a month later, results will be delivered to the school.
If Darwin’s theory is correct why is it that Gorillas/Apes have not ceased to exist, as only the fittest survive and they have evolved into Human Beings?
Gorillas/Apes are closer to Man-who is to be more ashamed-Man or the Animals?seeing the behaviour of man, one tends to ask.
“The complete sequence of 20,962 genes — extracted from the skin cells of Kamilah, a 34-year-old gorilla who lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — was compiled by an international team of more than 60 researchers who worked on the project for about five years.
Gorilla sitting like a man.
“The gorilla genome is important because gorillas are our second-closest living relatives,” said Richard Durbin, senior author of a paper about the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
By comparing the new gorilla DNA sequence with reference genomes of humans, chimpanzees, orangutans and macaques, scientists have already made a few surprising insights into the crucial periods when we diverged into separate species.
For instance, the new genetic data bolster fossil evidence that gorillas split off as a separate species about 10 million years ago and that humans and chimps parted ways about 6 million years ago. Previous genetic evidence had seemed to point to a more recent split, prompting a contentious debate betweengenetics experts and fossil scholars, said Durbin, who leads the genome informatics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England.
” In decoding the DNA of a western lowland gorilla, scientists made a discovery that may surprise you: Humans and gorillas differ in just 1.75% of their DNA, making our genomes more similar than previously thought. That percentage actually drops to 1.37% when compared to chimpanzees, our closest living relatives—but 15% of the time, gorilla DNA is actually more like human DNA than chimp DNA is, the Los Angeles Times reports. That “tells us that there are individual genes for which, if you want to find the closest sequence to humans, you won’t necessarily look at chimpanzees. In a few cases, you’ll look at gorillas,” says a geneticist.”
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