Virus-driven downsizing of the human brain

By: James V. Kohl | Published on: July 1, 2016

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Excerpt:

… they made sure to exclude, for instance, experts on viruses — the largest part of the biosphere — at a time when Zika continues to prove it can downsize the human brain in a flash and could have done the reverse at some point in evolutionary time.

My comment: At all points in “evolutionary time,” virus-driven energy theft can be linked to all pathology and nutrient energy-dependent RNA methylation can be linked from learning and memory to ecological adaptation via the physiology of reproduction and what is known about supercoiled DNA.
All facts about virus-driven energy theft and RNA-mediated cell type differentiation must be ignored by anyone who ever touted any aspect of neo-Darwinian pseudoscientific nonsense and anyone who claims they want to eliminate any aspect of that nonsense. Simply put, it’s too late for anyone to admit anything except that neo-Darwinists caused all the pathology that remains ineffectively treated in every person on Earth.
The neo-Darwinists caused many others to focus on mutations and evolution instead of Darwin’s “conditions of life,” which are nutrient-dependent and pheromone-controlled in species from microbes to humans. The role of human pheromones was excluded by default, as pseudoscientists claimed there was no proof that human pheromones exist.
See also:
The phylogenetic utility and functional constraint of microRNA flanking sequences
Wolbachia small noncoding RNAs and their role in cross-kingdom communications
Reported as: Researchers pinpoint microRNAs that could play a role in how Wolbachia bacteria manipulate their arthropod hosts
See also: Benign bacteria block mosquitoes from transmitting Zika, chikungunya viruses
Note: Most of my posts can be viewed in the context of pattern recognition. See Schrodinger (1944) “…in the case of higher animals we know the kind of orderliness they feed upon well enough, viz. the extremely well-ordered state of matter in more or less complicated organic compounds, which serve them as foodstuffs. After utilizing it they return it in a very much degraded form -not entirely degraded, however, for plants can still make use of it. (These, of course, have their most power supply of ‘negative entropy’ the sunlight)”