Gene-Meme Parasites
Andre Willers
28 Jan 2015
Synopsis :
Successful genes and memes alter the phenotype and even
behaviour of individuals , without regard to the benefit of the individual or
even the species . The selfish gene has got into bed with the Selfish Epigenetic
system . Civilization is a parasite on competent individuals , until very deep
into the Singularity .
Discussion :
1.Actual examples :
See Appendix A .
1.0 How to calculate Gene Prevalence - See Appendix F
1.1Genghis Khan -See Appendix A
1.2 Giocangga -See Appendix B
1.3 Uí Néill – see Appendix C
1.4 Abraham – see Appendix D
1.5 Jesus and Mohammed – see Appendix E
2.Comparing the influence of gene-meme complexes.
See Appendix G
People from Northern China are 3 times more likely to
initiate major changes .
3.Want to start your own religion for fun and profit ?
You used to need at least Dunbar’s Limit (150) as start-up
disciples .
But that is so old news .
Facebook has broken the Dunbar Limit . It is now floating .
This has interesting ramifications as churches lose
membership because critical numbers of deacons and priests fall below the new Dunbar’s
Limit . What is delicious , is that they do not even realise why their churches
are dying .
They can easily kicker them up , but that would suppose that
they are willing to change .
4.An Interesting Aside :
The decline of the Western Roman Empire induced the
inhabitants of North Africa to emigrate to Ireland .
The origin of the Irish Flowering .
They lasted quite long , until 1603 , when the much
diminished descendants fled to the Lowlands and nobility of Europe .
You know them as the Bilderbergers of today .
See Appendix G
Their total influence is still more than 1.6 times that of
Christianity .
5. Jesus’s other disciples .
An exercise for the dear reader .
There were at least 150 .
Who were they ?
6. These idle speculations are about to become
life-and-death important as the whole world economic system is heading for the
rapids .
7.Well , that was surprising .
I thought the old Roman Empire had decently shuffled off the
coil .
But like the bobble in the carpet , it keeps on surfacing .
The whole meme-structure of slavery , debt bondage , interest
rates , etc .
“Let’s let’s do do the the Time-wars Time-wars again again”
Andre
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Appendix A
Millions
of men bear the genetic legacy of Genghis Khan, the famously fertile Mongolian
ruler who died in 1227. Researchers have now recognized ten other men whose
fecundity has left a lasting impression on present-day populations. The team's
study1 points
to sociopolitical factors that foster such lineages, but the identities of the
men who left their genetic stamp remains unknown.
The
case for Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy is strong, if circumstantial. A 2003
paper2 led
by Chris Tyler-Smith, an evolutionary geneticist now at the Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, discovered that 8% of men in 16 populations
spanning Asia (and 0.5% of men worldwide) shared nearly identical Y-chromosome
sequences. The variation that did exist in their DNA suggested that the lineage
began around 1,000 years ago in Mongolia.
Khan
is reputed to have sired hundreds of children. But a Y-chromosome lineage
traces a single paternal line in a much larger family tree, and for it to leave
a lasting legacy takes multiple generations who fan out over a wide
geographical area, says Mark Jobling, a geneticist at the University of
Leicester, UK, who led the latest study with geneticist Patricia Balaresque of
Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.
“Lots
of men have lots of sons, by chance. But what normally doesn’t happen is the
sons have a high probability of having lots of sons themselves. You have to
have a reinforcing effect,” says Jobling. Establishment of such successful
lineages often depends on social systems that allow powerful men to father
children with multitudes of women.
The start of something
big
In
addition to Genghis Khan and his male descendants, researchers have previously
identified the founders of two other highly successful Y-chromosome lineages:
one that began in China with Giocangga, a Qinq Dynasty ruler who died in 15823,
and another belonging to the medieval Uí Néill dynasty in Ireland4.
Related stories
Jobling’s
team made a systematic search for genetic founders by analysing the Y
chromosomes of more than 5,000 men from 127 populations spanning Asia; they
focused on that region because lots of data were available and there was
already evidence of such lineages. The team identified 11 Y-chromosome
sequences that were each shared by more than 20 of the 5,321 genomes. The researchers
used DNA differences in the shared sequences, which accumulate over time from
random mutations, to determine approximately when the founder of the lineage
lived. They tracked back the geographical origins of the lineages by assuming
that the founding men had lived in the regions where their genotypes were most
prevalent and diverse.
Genghis
Khan’s paternal lineage again stood out, as did Giocangga’s, Jobling’s team
reports in theEuropean Journal of Human Genetics1.
The other nine lineages originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to
southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 bc and ad 700. Jobling warns that these
dates come with huge margins of error, but he notes that the estimates for the
lineages attributed to Khan and Giocangga are very close to those of past
studies.
Legacy of power
The
founders who lived between 2100 bc and
300 bc existed in both
sedentary agricultural societies and nomadic cultures in the Middle East,
India, southeast Asia and central Asia. Their dates coincide with the emergence
of hierarchical, authoritarian societies in Asia during the Bronze Age, such as
the Babylonians. Three lineages dating to more recent times were all linked to
nomadic groups in northeast China and Mongolia. These included the lineages
linked to Genghis Khan and Giocangga, plus a third line dating to around ad 850.
All
three lineages seem to have expanded westwards, possibly along the Silk Road
trade route. Historians have documented a series of polities based in inner
Asia between 200 bc and
the eighteenth century, such as the Qing Dynasty. Jobling says that these
civilizations could have fostered dominant male lineages after the sons of a
fecund founder decamped to satellite outposts, where they, in turn, fathered
powerful descendants.
The
researchers identify several candidates for the lineage dating to ad 850, but say that more research
is needed. Recovering DNA from the candidate or or a long-dead descendant would
be the ultimate proof.
“Looking
for these links is fascinating. When we did it, we were using pretty indirect
lines of reasoning, and you could try and do that with each of these lineages,”
says Tyler-Smith. “What I really hope is that at some point someone will find
Genghis Khan's tomb and remains.”
Nature
doi:10.1038/nature.2015.16767
2.
Zerjal, T. et al. Am.
J. Hum. Genet. 72, 717–721 (2003).
3.
Xue, Y. et al. Am.
J. Hum. Genet. 77, 1112–1116 (2005).
4.
Moore, L. T., McEvoy, B., Cape,
E., Simms, K. & Bradley, D. G. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 78,334–338 (2006).
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Appendix B
Giocangga (Manchu: 
; Chinese: 覺昌安; pinyin: Juéchāng'ān)
(died 1582) was the grandfather of Nurhaci, the man who was to unify the Jurchen peoples and begin building what
later became the Manchu state. Both he
and his son Taksi went to the aid of Nurhaci's
uncle Atai (阿台 Ātái)
whose city was being besieged by a rival Jurchen chieftainNikan
Wailan (ᠨᡳᡴᠠᠨ ᠸᠠᡳᠯᠠᠨ; 尼堪外蘭 Níkān Wàilán),
who promised the governance of the city to whoever would kill Atai. One of
Atai's underlings rebelled and murdered him. Both Giocangga and Taksi were
originally under the command of the Ming general Li Chengliang who was siding with Nikan
Wailan. In the mist of battle Li thought they had mutinied as they were left in
the battlefield. They were killed in the aftermath by Nikan Wailan.
In 2005, a study led by a researcher at the British Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute suggested that Giocangga might be a
direct male-line ancestor of over 1.5 million men, mostly in northeastern China and Mongolia.[1] This was attributed to Giocangga's and his descendants'
many wives and concubines.[1] It was estimated that the average man in the time of
Giocangga would have only 20 offspring as of 2005.[1][dubious – discuss] Gioncangga's descendants in the
patrilineal line are concentrated among several ethnic minorities who were part
of the Manchu Eight Banners system, and are not found in the Han Chinese
population.
·
Brothers
1.
Soocangga (索長阿 Suǒcháng'ā)
2.
Boosi (寶實 Bǎoshí)
3.
Desikū (德世庫 Déshìkù)
4.
Leodan (劉闡 Liúchǎn)
5.
Boolungga (包朗阿 Bāolǎng'ā)
·
Children: (5 sons)
1.
Lidun Baturu (禮敦巴圖魯 Lǐdūn Bātúlǔ)
2.
Argun (額爾袞 Éěrgǔn)
3.
Jaikan (界堪 Jièkān)
5.
Taca Fiyanggū (塔察篇古 Tǎchá Piāngǔ)
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Appendix C
The first generation of the Uí Néill were his sons, seven in
all:
All these men were in their lifetime known as members of The Connachta dynasty,
or as "the sons of Niall." The term Uí Néill did not - by its very
nature - come into use until the time of Niall's grandsons and great-grandsons.
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Appendix D
The
other nine lineages originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to
southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 bc and ad 700.
The
Bible's internal chronology places Abraham around 2000 BCE. Despite this,
"there is nothing specific in the Genesis stories that can be definitively
related to known history in or around Canaan in the early second millennium
B.C.E."
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Appendix
E
Mohammed
and Jesus .
Presumably
superior genes . Thus prevalent in the population .
Complex
feedback system .
Mohammed
According
to the sixth edition of The Columbia
Encyclopedia (2000), Muhammad is probably
the most common given name [in the world], including variations.[3] It is estimated that more than 150 million men and boys
in the world bear the name Muhammad.
About
11% of Islamic descent
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Jesus.
Etymology &
Historical Origin - Jesus
The given name Jesus obviously needs very little by way of
explanation; the origin is clear – Jesus is the central figure in Christianity.
However, Jesus as a given name is distinct to Spanish-speaking cultures and
usually rendered with an accented “U” as in Jesús and is pronounced hay-SOOS).
In the English-speaking world, Jesus is not used as a given name. The name
originates from the Hebrew “Yeshua” which made its way to the Greeks in the
form of “Iēsous” and then to the Latin “Iesus.” From there, the “J” was added
and became “Jesus” in most of the European languages. The name’s etymological
origin is found in the Hebrew words “ys” (to save) and “yesua” (salvation). In
Matthew 1:20-21, an angel appears to Joseph in a dream informing him that
Mary’s pregnancy has been divinely orchestrated and that he is to name their
son Jesus, “for he will save his people from their sins” – indicating that the
name had not been selected arbitrarily.
Popularity of the Name
Jesus
As mentioned above, people of English-speaking origin won’t use
Jesus as a personal name; it makes them squirm with discomfort. Somehow taboo.
The closest they come to using Jesus is by way of the name “Joshua.” People of
Hispanic decent, however, fully embrace the given name Jesús for their little
boys as a genuinely heartfelt demonstration of their reverence to Jesus. The
name has become so popular within the Latino-American culture, that “hay-SOOS”
feels like just another boys name with Spanish flair so in some cases, it may
not even be tied to religion. In any case, it’s clearly the Spanish-speaking
Americans, or those of Hispanic/Latino origin, driving the popularity of this
name. Jesus has been on the U.S. popularity graph for over a century. The name
received moderate usage at the turn of the last century, but fast-forward to
this century with the growing Latino population in America, you'll find that
Jesus sits squarely on the list of Top 100 most favored boys’ names
About
3% of Christian descent .
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Appendix
F
General
calculation :
Y=D
* D^kt
We
find k by seeing the percentage of the gene in a relevant descendant population
.
Meme-descendants
: names are taken as a good a-priori indicator of gene penetration in conqueror
populations .
This
might not seem obvious . Think it through .
Y(t)=D^(kt+1)
Yfraction
= Y(t)/Y(0)
= D^(kt)
k
= ln(Yfraction) / (ln(D) *t)
k
only has meaning in a competitive environment .
It
has to be compared , as it is a measure of the fitness of a meme structure .
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Appendix
G
Table
of local influences .
1.Genghis
: t ~ 800 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.08 , k
= -0.0006300
2.
Giocangga t~500 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.01,
k = -0.0018381
3.
Uí Néill t~1600 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.01 , k =
-0.0005744
4.Abraham
t~ 3000 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.9 , k
= -0.00000700
5.Jesus
t~2000 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.03 , k= -0.00035000
6.Mohammed
t~1400 , D=150 , Yfraction ~ 0.11 , k = -0.0003147
In
Descending order :
(Multiply
by -10^4 to get some meaningful numbers)
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Giocangga
18.4
(Northern china)
Genghis 6.3
(Asia)
Uí
Néill 5.7 (Western Europe)
Jesus 3.5 (Christian)
Mohammed
3.1 (Islamic)
Abraham 0.07
(Semitic)
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; Chinese: 覺昌安; pinyin: Juéchāng'ān)
(died 1582) was the grandfather of Nurhaci, the man who was to unify the Jurchen peoples and begin building what
later became the Manchu state. Both he
and his son Taksi went to the aid of Nurhaci's
uncle Atai (阿台 Ātái)
whose city was being besieged by a rival Jurchen chieftainNikan
Wailan (ᠨᡳᡴᠠᠨ ᠸᠠᡳᠯᠠᠨ; 尼堪外蘭 Níkān Wàilán),
who promised the governance of the city to whoever would kill Atai. One of
Atai's underlings rebelled and murdered him. Both Giocangga and Taksi were
originally under the command of the Ming general Li Chengliang who was siding with Nikan
Wailan. In the mist of battle Li thought they had mutinied as they were left in
the battlefield. They were killed in the aftermath by Nikan Wailan.