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Extracts and statements from the theoretical work of....................Ian K Pennack
• Subjects of this site
Hominid speciation
Brain lateralisation
Corpus callosum
Right-handedness in males
Left-handedness in males
Maternal traits in regard to speciation
• Claim of priority.
As far as I am aware, I am the only person in the world forwarding the concept
that the left-handed male formed the Hominid lineage, via a currently unknown
form of speciation that I have simply termed, Cerebral speciation.
• Overview of the hypothesis
At this time the concept that I describe here is essentially a hypothesis from the
mind of one. The view is that the genetic code and the body was surpassed by
the brain as the principle means of finding new life survival stratagies. - But the
brain’s source of material for finding new life survival strategies was the genetic
code itself. The environment had been the genes way of survival via genetic
variation, but the genetic code became so complex that the brain began to use
the genetic code as a life survival strategy. Thus brain laterality began to
evolve, creating a new male, the left-handed, right hemisphere dominant male
specifically for speciation, leaving the other male, to the natural and sexual
selection of all genetic mechanisms except recombinatory complexity applied to
the brain.
Brain laterality evolved from simple, minor brain asymmetries that expressed
maternal traits to the right side of the brain, while males possessed the same
sidedness but to the left. Evolutionary competition within specie life will seek
out any advantage generationally, even if the phenotypic competition is
detrimental to the long term survival of the species ability to speciate.
Speciation is a separate genetic/cerebral life survival force. Speciation must
acquire a frequency to match a species competitive damage to genetic/cerebral
variability, if speciation cannot occur a niche survival mode will evolve followed
by extinction at short or long time spans.
Before brain laterality evolved, the male of the specie speciated via the four
known processes. There was little emphasis on the mind in any prior speciation
mode. Brain laterality found new survival strategies from maternal traits. A male
inheriting maternal DNA is most likely to find himself at a physical disadvantage
within existent specie life and will not compete directly but explore the
surrounding environment for a new advantage.
• Introduction to the theory
The left-handed male achieved a continuum of isolative, multi-generational,
Cerebral speciation events via, Natural “Recombinatory” selection, - the
selection of maternal DNA applied to the brain. The brain evolved abstract
consciousness from the recombination of maternal traits via a second male
within the progeny of one specie.
Brain laterality is the division of the brain into two hemispheres. That Right-
handedness is 90% of humanity but only occupies half the brain in dominance
is a damning indictment of its inadequacy for long term life survival. That a
minority of 10% of humanity occupies half the brain in dominance is astounding
and indicative of importance far beyond anything previously formulated.
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“Brain laterality the switching mechanism between specie life and speciation”
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Brain laterality is the evolutionary innovation of two males within the progeny of
one specie. One for specie life, the other for speciation. Brain laterality can be
described as a cerebral switching mechanism directing phenotypes towards
Natural and sexual selection within specie life to Natural “Recombinatory”
selection regarding a new specie. Each hemisphere houses neural circuitry of
a different nature, applicable to left or right hemisphere dominance. The
corpus callosum amplifies the differences of each hemisphere when in
dominance. This orchestration of the hemispheres evolved to facilitate the
Natural selection of all genetic mechanisms from the mutational origins of DNA.
to greater genetic recombinatory complexity.
The brain could only evolve if it evolved in concert with the entire existent
complement of genetic mechanisms. For this a myriad of brain states had to
evolve to mimic the states of consciousness that existed before the evolution of
the brain. Brain laterality achieves this
via the two hemispheres and, the all important Corpus callosum.
Within specie life, Right-handed males suffer the most extensive inter-
hemispheric pruning of axons. This axonal dieback concerns the finer axons of
mind, limiting sentient thought processes and prompting physical actions rather
than hesitative interpretive thought processes.
The female had amassed an enormous maternal repertoire of genes and traits.
A specie trait male inheriting maternal DNA would generally be at a
disadvantage within specie life, but a second male of right-hemisphere
dominance could achieve cerebral insights into new independent life survival
strategies. Maternal DNA achieved equality with paternal DNA, but only via a
right hemisphere dominant male.
The equilibrium of maternal/paternal DNA has been a very important life
survival strategy ever since the double helix allowed the two sexes to evolve.
Some of my future work concerns identifying the genetic mechanisms of this
inter-sexual battle of DNA throughout the evolutionary timescale.
• The evolutionary innovation of genetic mechanisms in relation to the brain
The evolutionary innovation of all genetic mechanisms occurred deep on the
evolutionary timescale of life on earth. The brain has evolved sentient
consciousness very recently on the evolutionary timescale. Because the brain
has evolved upon an existent compliment of genetic mechanisms, the brain
must develop in accordance with and accommodate all existing genetic
mechanisms and their respective fluctuating frequencies of action. It is
estimated that mutation averages 2 to 3 mutations at meiosis, the germ cell
line. The recombination frequency has been estimated at 20 to 25 at meiosis.
The recombination rate appears to have risen in concert with mammalian and
primate evolution. The rising frequency of recombination also appears to be
linked in time to the evolutionary innovation of the corpus callosum.
Genetic mechanisms are the means whereby genetic material evolves. Without
genetic mechanisms there can be no evolutionary innovation. No selection of
the fittest in a changing environment. Genetic mechanisms would have evolved
very early on the evolutionary timescale, expanding from mutational origins to
the codon to hundreds then thousands of base pairs that some mechanisms
affect.
Both left hemisphere dominance and right hemisphere dominance, which make
up brain laterality via the fabulously intricate corpus callosum do not remotely
fit any prior theory that I have heard about or read about. Brain laterality
demands an entirely new approach.
The powers of right hemisphere dominance cannot evolve within specie life,
only remnant right hemisphere dominant males remain. The left hemisphere
dominant, struggle to comprehend the nature of all reality and through the
necessity of generational competition fail to produce what is termed intellectual
genius to any marked degree It is crucial to make headway in understanding
our evolutionary pathway, much less so the evolution of our solar system,
galaxy, even though what is now known is such a pleasure to contemplate.
The hidden nature and powers of right hemisphere dominance have
confounded every civilisation. The evaporation of intellect rather than an
evolutionary spiral within civilisations appears the norm. Civilisations require an
exponential growth of a population merely to create a few geniuses who would
not exist within a specie caught in a perpetual survival mode of limited growth in
population.
• Language is a specie trait, therefore primarily resides in the left
hemisphere
How many times have I heard the question, why is language located in the left
hemisphere of the human brain. The answer is. “Language is a specie trait, all
specie traits primarily reside in the dominant hemisphere”. The left hemisphere
is the specie trait hemisphere, whereby intra-sexual competition is required to
sort the fitter phenotype. The right hemisphere is the experimental hemisphere
whereby new genetic recombinations are expressed, or “applied to the brain”,
in order of finding new independent life survival strategies.
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“The brain has evolved upon an existent compliment of genetic mechanisms”
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Specie traits are more intensely located in the left hemisphere of right-handed
males because males are involved in much more intra-sexual competition and
violence. The female becomes a better mother, not by active intra-sexual
violence or direct competition, but by emotional and constant attention to the
tasks of rearing young. Worry and anxiety save lives if a mother feels emotion
at short notice of an infant wandering. The female’s contribution to intelligence
is little understood at present, but cerebrally we are much more of female origin
than many would care to admit.
• Important new evolutionary term.
I have expanded the Darwinian term of “Natural selection” to “Natural
Recombinatory selection”. The new term only applies to isolative recombinatory
speciation events achieved via a right hemisphere dominant, left-handed male.
We are a specie of the brain. The term “Natural selection” only applies in full to
species that do not possess the mechanisms of brain laterality. We have
evolved our consciousness via, “Natural Recombinatory selection” which is the
evolutionary inclusion of Maternal DNA on equal terms with paternal DNA.
• New terms and descriptive statements of right and left-handed males
Right- Handed male ….”Specie Trait Male”
• The left hemisphere dominant male, cerebrally and physically optimised
by Natural and sexual selection within specie life. The right-handed male, being
the specie trait male could not cerebrally speciate towards greater genetic
recombinatory complexity. The right-handed male remained tied to the
mutational origins of DNA.
Left-Handed Male....”Cerebral Speciation Male”.
• The right hemisphere dominant male, cerebrally optimised by ‘Natural-
Recombinatory-Selection” at periodic, isolative and multi-generational cerebral
speciation events. The left-handed male evolved to recombine the maternal
genome with the paternal genome.
• The corpus callosum
The Corpus callosum is the central component of brain laterality in regard of
genetic recombinatory complexity. I separate all brain asymmetries from brain
laterality where a corpus callosum is absent. The corpus callosum has given
rise to brain asymmetries of an unprecedented nature, whereby a specie
produces two males cerebrally directed towards separate life survival
strategies on behalf of the Natural selection of different genetic
mechanisms.
The Corpus callosum possesses a dynamics of mind as yet unappreciated by
scientific understanding. The corpus callosum’s potential for adjusting mind
states is in relation to the Natural selection of every genetic mechanism that
has evolved since the mutational origins of DNA. Genetic mechanisms possess
variable frequencies and hot-spots at locations along a chromosome. This
allows Natural selection to work upon amplifying specific traits that an
environmental situation may demand. It appears that the powers of Natural
selection comes very close to a “hold it there” phase while certain DNA in
question is multi-generationally manipulated to seek out new genetic powers, -
both physical and mental.
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The corpus callosum, a governor of the higher states of reflective consciousness.
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I liken the workings of genetic mechanisms to a pipe organ of which all stops
may be closed, but just possessing a base load frequency, but when a
situation arises one or multiple stops are thrown open to facilitate a wild range
of genetic change. It is as though the DNA has a mind of its own, but which in
reality is just a very dynamic genetic variability, but truly astounding in its
powers of genetic creativity in relation to the brain as well as the body. - In
computer speak, I often think of D.N.A as doss and the brain as windows.
However, what I am seriously contending is that the Right and Left-handed
males have evolved to be predisposed towards a range of life survival
behaviours that were largely separate. The common thread is that both right
and left-handed males have passed on their contribution to the next
generation, via the female at the appropriate time for evolution to have
occurred.
Future discussion of references
Mammalian chiasma frequencies as a test of two theories of recombination. –
Austin Burt, Graham Bell. – Nature, Volume 326 – 23 April 1987.
Burt & Bell’s paper indicates a rising frequency of Recombination that appears
to align with the evolutionary innovation of brain laterality.
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A, Right Hemisphere Dominant Environment only ever existed, Outside of Species Life.
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First placed on internet…20-July-2009.
updated………….........28-August-2009
updated.................18-March-2010
This update………7-October-2010
Email.............................................................................Pennack@adam.com.au
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The Right-handed male remained tied to the evolutionary origin of DNA.
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