No matter where the story starts we are the product of incest.
The family of Adam and Eve are a shocking example.
We know who ordained that, it is well documented.
Being made from his rib makes her his twin, same DNA.
Is the child of identical twins a triplet?
Who did what with whom in the next generation?
It seems there should be a race of clones.
This debate does seem to explain the reactions I get from my book.
I write about the other story, the one with science in it.
I get my radical ideas from the Human Genome Project.
Early humans passed through several bottlenecks, times when the whole species numbered 5,000 to 8,000.
There is a fair amount of evidence that they were not social, and did eat strangers.
They lived in small family groups.
A couple, their children, and their children were about as large as they could support in a hunter gather way. Most evidence says twelve would be a large group.
The male pool would be grandpa, dad, uncle, brother, first cousin, and all the girls were pregnant all the time. This went on for millions of years.
This is a subtractive form of breeding, recessive genes become manifest.
It does produce some non-vaiable mixes, and Nature has this thing called death, problem solved.
It produces a lot of the same, dumb and ugly in the case of humans, and a few better mixes.
The trail of bones does show better mixes took Nature's way, first cleaning out their own line, then the neighbors.
The new and improved replace the old and traditional very quickly. It happens several times.
By the Out of Africa story, at the last bottle neck, we all come from a population of 8,000 who developed in northern Africa about 120,000 years ago. From what we can guess, they had the hairless body, and the long wavy hair of Austrailian Aboriginies. That part of the line crossed sixty miles of deep open ocean and reached Australia 70,000 years ago.
Another traceable group went north, continued the pattern of family procreation, and reached another bottleneck, this time less than 100, very closely related, a narrow family tree, and they are the ancestors of Europeans. This happened 40,000 years ago. Roughly the last 1,000 generations.
The lot of them were more closely related than brother sister, they were closer to twins, they all had the same grandparents, greatgrandparents, going back many generations.
That they survived as a distinctive European breed shows they did not mix outside blood.
They have two main traits, Lucistic, pink skin, blue eyes, light hair, and a long skull. Everyone was round head, roughly the same measure side to side and front to back, their heads are longer front to back.
They had a small population spread over a large area and continued the family breeding program. By 20,000 years ago long heads have replaced round heads. Interbreeding would have mixed the traits, but that did not happen.
They did develop everything we know as the modern era.
Their religion fit the facts, Baal Temples have many babies given back to the Sun. Many are likely still born, sealed in a pot, left at the Temple, others it seems were cast into the fire. Line breeding does take culling, nature does most.
The Bon Fire, is a survival of The Baal Fire, and in recorded times defective babies were tossed in to the blaze, for recycling.
Most Royal Lines were maintained by brother sister couples, the Pharos, the Inca, Hawaiians kept a special line. Many other cultures maintained a high line by line breeding. Many others maintained casts.
Some chose to breed the best with the best, a cultured line.
It does have it's problems, the Russian Czars shared too many ancestors, and hemophila. King George had urine the color of claret, and that too runs in close families. The Burbon lip. Romans married their nieces, cousins, and some their sisters.
Some of this modern breeding idea can from the church, because they could not break into the culture of a village or town, for everyone wanted to keep the land and wealth in the family, so married their cousins. The church used it to marry their most faithful in and take over.
In my own time 1950s there were no institutions for defective childern, they all died very young. It was expected of a family that they would not raise a child who could not survive, and would never become a productive member of the group. It had always been that way. Children were starved, drowned, poisoned, smothered with a pillow, and no parent was ever charged. Under the old law, part of the Roman Legal Code, a father had the right, and social obligation, to kill his own children.
Autis, Downs, missing limbs, spinal bufidica, and many others died soon after birth. Look for them in the records of the past, you will not find them.
Now they are kept alive, and healthy children are aborted, now that is shocking.
Medical science kept hemophilacs alive, AIDs exterminated them.
The defective are being kept alive, and are too far gone to worry about breeding, I favor free range aspies, but what an odd lot they are. Nature will sort it all out.
Having a low IQ and many children seems common. Intelligence per human seems to be declining.
Intelligence per aspie is rising, and even though we do not produce many children, which is good, we are being expressed in the NT gene pool.
A bunch of very smart, but dumb, hand flappers. This technology aspies have unleashed, computers, is the greatest leap forward of all time. Aspies are deeply involved as creaters, maintainers, users.
How strange that this bud sport in the gene pool could gather. Over 10,000 here? What will come of this?
NTs do not understand us, the more we study them the simpler they seem, and I give up on explaining computers to them. We do understand each other, we do still carry a lot of NT opinion and conditioning, but soon, aspies growing up aspie.
It has been rough at times, but overall, I would rather have my aspie brain.
We are a small part of the gene pool, more being discovered, more growing up knowing, more aspie pride. My problems do not come from AS, but from dealing with a world that seems wrong to me.
What a great and interesting future before us.
15 Mar 2007, 9:33 pm
