Notes - Pre-Soul House image setting for GMG.2, Ch. 11, "The Dead" / DNA

       Mid-morning. You are concerned about the backwater in which you appear to be residing. – Amorella

       0913 hours. I have dropped off the creative grid. I want to get back on and complete Dead 11. It bothers me that I used ‘want’ rather than ‘need’ and I think that is the crux of my problem.

       Want is the correct word. Need to complete Dead Eleven brings up the question as to why when there would be none other than completing the book so that you can move on to the third. Later, dude. – Amorella

       Late afternoon. You are in Barnes and Noble waiting for your backup camera instillation at Best Buy about a city block down the mall off Fields-Ertel Road. Now is a good time to work on Dead Eleven. Let’s go to it. – Amorella

       1705 hours. I know this is a conversation between two old soul friends but I have no idea what they would talk about that would be pertinent to this segment.

       You need an old soul to talk to. Let’s make it one we have used already, but we will change the name for your greater comfort – you have two choices for Merlyn here, Socrates or Ezekiel? – Amorella

       1711 hours. In real life I wouldn’t mind having either one as a soul friend, but personally I’d be more comfortable having conversation with Socrates.

       Venerable will be played by Socrates’ soul, not Socrates. Merlyn’s soul will be played by Merlyn’s soul, Foretoken in Dead Eleven, GMG2. We set the stage. Find a Classical Greek image that will serve. – Amorella

       1716 hours. Why do that? I thought they would be two ghost-like images on a dark non-descript plain.

       In here souls are from a pre-ordered place; they have no image. They are not like ghosts; ghosts are post-earth living human images. Foretokens’ ‘eye’ will do for both – it is easier to have all souls with similarity. Now, let’s find that classical background. – Amorella

       1736 hours. How about the photo I took at Pompeii?

The Setting at the House of Souls

[A Villa Entrance at Pompeii]

       This is particularly fine as you have been there. The ‘Eyes’ will hover on each side of the vestibule’s foot pool. - Amorella

 

                                                                                                              

                                            

                                                   

       You are home and had leftover Papa John’s pizza for supper as you watched NBC News. After, you and Carol watched the next to last episode of Masterpiece’s “Downton Abbey” and last week’s “Mysteries of Laura”. Post, we’ll continue this tomorrow. - Amorella

           2142 hours. I cannot get them centered as they should be. 

           It's a working blog, boy. You'll think of something. You have the concept. - Amorella

       Further notes for tomorrow. The interesting thing here is that I did not know any DNA I carry is also carried by “about 5 percent of the genomes to people in New Guinea and Australia and related people,” because I am 3 percent DNA – Denisovan (earlier blog entry - about a year ago).

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Edge - February, 22, 2016

CONVERSATION : LIFE

The Genomic Ancient DNA Revolution

A New Way to Investigate the Past

[The Introduction to] A Conversation With David Reich [2.1.16]

My experience collaborating with Svante since 2007, has been that the data we’ve looked at from the incredible samples they have has yielded surprise after surprise. Nobody had ever gotten to look at data like this before. First, there were the Neanderthals, and then there was this pinky bone from Southern Siberia. At the end of the Neanderthal project, Svante told me we have this amazing genome-wide data from another archaic human, from a little pinky bone of a little girl from a Southern Siberian cave, and asked if I'd like to get involved in analyzing it.

When we analyzed it, it was an incredible surprise: This individual was not a Neanderthal. They were in fact much more distantly related to a Neanderthal than any two humans are today from each other, and it was not a modern human. It was some very distant cousin of a Neanderthal that was living in Siberia in Central Asia at the time that this girl lived.

When we analyzed the genome of this little girl, we saw that she was related to people in New Guinea and Australia. A person related to her had contributed about 5 percent of the genomes to people in New Guinea and Australia and related people—an interbreeding event nobody had known about before. It was completely unexpected. It wasn’t in anybody’s philosophy or anybody’s prediction. It was a new event that was driven by the data and not by people’s presuppositions or previous ideas.

This is what ancient DNA does for us. When you look at the data, it doesn’t always just play into one person’s theory or the other; it doesn’t just play into the Indo-European steppe hypothesis or the Anatolian hypothesis. Sometimes it raises something completely new, like the Denisovan finger bone and the interbreeding of a gene flow from Denisovans into Australians and New Guineans. 

DAVID REICH is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School

Selected and edited from EdgeDOTcom

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     You are surprised but this shows some of your Asian and Island stories may have the same authenticity behind the creative settings and characters as your European and British Isles DNA characteristics. More people are of such blend, boy. Such irony there is in the world of human beings and their genetic backgrounds given concepts that separate the species. Post. - Amorella