Starchild DNA Reveals Father Not Human

Lloyd Pye Update: We finally have a recovery of nuclear DNA from the Starchild skull

We finally have a recovery of nuclear DNA from the Starchild!  

This past weekend I met with the geneticist working on the Starchild's DNA. He explained how he can now prove the Starchild is not entirely human, which has been our position for years. Now it is no longer a question of "if," but of "when" and "how" we spread this astounding new reality beyond the mailing list. First, though, let me bring the list's newcomers up to speed.

In 2003 we had a DNA analysis that used human-only primers to recover the Starchild's mitochondrial DNA, the DNA outside the nucleus, which comes from the mother and her genetic line. That meant its mother was human. But we could not recover its nuclear DNA, which comes from both mother and father, which meant its father was not a human. Unfortunately, with the recovery technology of 2003 we couldn't prove what he was, which left us in scientific limbo. The "no result" from the search for the nuclear DNA clearly meant Dad wasn't human, but we could not prove that fact beyond all possible doubt. 

Now, in 2010, there have been many improvements in the recovery process, and those improvements have been applied to the Starchild skull with the stunning result you see below. This is a gel sheet that shows a clear recovery of its nuclear DNA, which could not be done in 2003.  

 

The next two screen shots are taken from the national genetic database at the National Institute of Health, NIH. That public-access database is a centralized repository of all genetic information generated by geneticists all over the world, and now covers essentially all living organisms on Earth, from various kinds of viruses and bacteria, to various kinds of crustaceans and fish, to all kinds of animals and plants, including great apes and humans. 

For many species, humans included, there are already nucleotide sequences covering entire genomes. Therefore, sequences from the Starchild's DNA can be directly compared against this vast database to look for any matches. In one such comparison below, you see the text below the blue line at the bottom (if you can read it, sorry it's so fuzzy) that 265 base pairs (a good length) of recovered Starchild nuclear DNA matches perfectly with a gene on human chromosome 1. This verifies beyond any degree of doubt that some of the nuclear DNA seen in the gel sheet is from a human being.

Read More: Source: Exopolitics

More on this Starchild skull from Llyod Pye in the video below

Interesting.

 

Should We Clone Neanderthals?

 "In addition to giving scientists the ability to answer questions about Neanderthals' relationship to our own species--did we interbreed, are we separate species, who was smarter--the Neanderthal genome may be useful in researching medical treatments. Newly developed techniques could make cloning Neanderthal cells or body parts a reality within a few years. The ability to use the genes of extinct hominins is going to force the field of paleoanthropology into some unfamiliar ethical territory. There are still technical obstacles, but soon it could be possible to use that long-extinct genome to safely create a healthy, living Neanderthal clone. Should it be done?"

"Although most of the Neanderthal genome sequencing is now being done by the San Diego-based company Illumina, the Max Planck Institute initially chose 454 because it had come up with a way to read hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences at a time. Genome-sequencing technology is advancing at a rate comparable to computer processing power. 'Six years ago if you wanted to sequence E. coli [a species of bacteria], which is about 4 million base-pairs in length, it would have taken one or maybe two million dollars, and it would have taken a year and 150 people,' says Jarvie. "Nowadays, one person can do it in two days and it would cost a few hundred dollars."

It's really much more complicated than that.

"Human rights laws vary widely around the world. 'There is not a universal ban on cloning,' says Anderson. 'Even in the United States there are some states that ban it, others that don't.' On August 8, 2005, the United Nations voted to ban human cloning. It sent a clear message that most governments believe that human cloning is unethical. The ban, however, is non-binding."

Wow, this is getting a little scary.

"As different as Neanderthals were, they may not have been different enough to be considered a separate species. 'There are humans today who are more different from each other in phenotype [physical characteristics],' says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. He has studied differences in the DNA of modern human populations to understand the rate of evolutionary change in Homo sapiens. Many of the differences between a Neanderthal clone and a modern human would be due to genetic changes our species has undergone since Neanderthals became extinct. 'In the last 30,000 years we count about 2,500 to 3,000 events that resulted in positive functional changes [in the human genome],' says Hawks. Modern humans, he says, are as different from Homo sapiens who lived in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, as Neolithic people would have been from Neanderthals."

"The Neanderthals' brains made them capable of some impressive cultural innovations. They were burying their dead as early as 110,000 years ago, which means that they had a social system that required formal disposal of the deceased. Around 40,000 years ago, they adopted new stone-tool-making traditions, the Châttelperronian tradition in Western Europe and the Uluzzian in Italy, that included a greater variety of tools than they had used in hundreds of thousands of years."

"Bernard Rollin, a bioethicist and professor of philosophy at Colorado State University, doesn't believe that creating a Neanderthal clone would be an ethical problem in and of itself. The problem lies in how that individual would be treated by others. 'I don't think it is fair to put people...into a circumstance where they are going to be mocked and possibly feared,' he says, 'and this is equally important, it's not going to have a peer group. Given that humans are at some level social beings, it would be grossly unfair.' The sentiment was echoed by Stringer, 'You would be bringing this Neanderthal back into a world it did not belong to....It doesn't have its home environment anymore.'"

"There were no cities when the Neanderthals went extinct, and at their population's peak there may have only been 10,000 of them spread across Europe. A cloned Neanderthal might be missing the genetic adaptations we have evolved to cope with the world's greater population density, whatever those adaptations might be. But, not everyone agrees that Neanderthals were so different from modern humans that they would automatically be shunned as outcasts."

 "I'm convinced that if one were to raise a Neanderthal in a modern human family he would function just like everybody else," says Trenton Holliday, a paleoanthropologist at Tulane University. "I have no reason to doubt he could speak and do all the things that modern humans do."

 "'I think there would be no question that if you cloned a Neanderthal, that individual would be recognized as having human rights under the Constitution and international treaties,' says Lori Andrews, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The law does not define what a human being is, but legal scholars are debating questions of human rights in cases involving genetic engineering. 'This is a species-altering event,' says Andrews, 'it changes the way we are creating a new generation.' How much does a human genome need to be changed before the individual created from it is no longer considered human?"

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Scientists Crack 4000 Year Old "Iceman" DNA - Artists Rendering

Scientists crack ancient iceman's DNA code

By Emily Bourke for AM

Posted 5 hours 53 minutes ago

Artist's impression: the genome revealed physical traits including a tendency for baldness (Nuka Godfredsen)

New research on a clump of hair found buried deep in the ice of Greenland has revealed a snapshot of what ancient man looked like.

To date DNA sequencing has used modern samples from living people, but this is the first time material from an extinct culture has been used.

For the first time scientists have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient man by using a sample of hair that was extracted from the permafrost.

It has revealed some of ancient man's physical traits, including his tendency for baldness.

The findings, published in the latest issue of Nature, have also challenged conventional wisdom on migration patterns of humans 5,000 years ago.

Professor David Lambert, an expert on evolutionary biology at Queensland's Griffith University, says he has analysed the research into the 4,000 year old man, who has been named as Inuk.

"He was very dark, he had very dark hair, he had a tendency for baldness and dark-coloured skin," he said.
"They even were able to pinpoint what kind of wax he had in his ears.

"This is historic, truly historic because for the very first time we're getting a snapshot of what our ancestors looked like. And I think that's pretty remarkable."

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Scientists Have Found Fractal Patterns In Human "Junk DNA, That Are Consistent With The Fractals That Gnostics Linked To Regressive Aliens"

http://exopoliticsnews.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/scholars-suggest-extraterrestrial-like-dna-fractals-floating-in-the-human-gene-pool/

Scientists have found fractal patterns in human “junk” DNA, that are consistent with the fractals that the Gnostics linked to regressive aliens”

by Dr. John Chang

	Manipulative Extraterrestrial fractal pattern of a sentient inorganic intelligence, reference: Metahistory.org.

Arguably, the greatest challenge to humanity may be to re-affirm an invigorating context of empathy and peace with one another. Researchers suggest that this human challenge may very pivot on the ability of humanity to overcome regressive alien intrusions and deceptions.

 The historical testimonies of ancient communities, indigenous people, and modern eyewitnesses suggest that there is some kind of genetic programme that is being directed against humanity. This has been linked to accounts of alien abductions. Furthermore, scholars like Zecharia Sitchin suggest regressive aliens travelled to Earth during an ancient era, to pursue the creation of alien-human hybrids as a “ruling caste”. David Icke, supported by the testimony of African elder Credo Mutwa, suggest that these alien-human hybrids continue to preside over Earth’s institutions.

However, before dismissing outright such claims, the unprejudiced “scientific mind” would tend to critically query such a representation.

Indigenous knowledge along with the insights on “pagan” (pre-Christian) Gnostics suggests that humanity, all living things on Earth, along with the Earth itself are all one. If we at least for a moment, embrace such an insight, then, what accounts for the apparently spiralling decent of humanity into social and environmental destruction? Most people, it would seem, would love to protect the environment, and ensure a context for social justice among people, that affirms human quality-of-living. If that is the case, then what is holding humanity back? Humans seek the protection of their environment are also seeking a context of peace and social justice, because apparently at least subconsciously, humanity does in fact recognize its “oneness” with one another, and with the Earth in general.

Now add DNA to the catalogue of things fractal-like. ‘There is some magical phenomenon going on that we just do not understand,’ says H. Eugene Stanley, a physicist at Boston University. The image on the top shows DNA molecules that have self-assembled into a Sierpinski triangle pattern. The graphic on the bottom shows the fractal pattern. Physicists backed the suspicions a few years ago, when those studying fractals noticed certain patterns in junk DNA. They found that noncoding sequences display what are termed long-range correlations. That is, the position of a nucleotide depends to some extent on the placement of other nucleotides. Their patterns follow a fractal-like property called 1/f noise, which is inherent in .many physical systems that evolve over time, such as electronic circuits, periodicity of earthquakes and even traffic patterns. In the genome, however, the long-range correlations held only for the non-coding sequences; the coding parts exhibited an uncorrelated pattern. Those signs suggested that junk DNA might contain some kind of organized information. To decipher the message, Stanley and his colleagues Rosario N. Mantegna, Sergey V. Buldyrev and Shlomo Haviin collaborated with Amy L Goldberg, Chung-Kang Peng and Michael Simons of Harvard Medical School. They borrowed from the work of linguist George K. Zipf who by looking at texts from several languages ranked the frequency with which words occur. Plotting the rank of words against those in a text produces a distinct relation. The most common word “the” in English occurs 10 times ,than the 10th most common word, 100 times more often than the 100th most common, and so forth. Read the entire fascinating article here: SOURCE