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News Briefs 03-03-2010

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SETI is enormous fun and of great interest to the public. The momentous nature of a positive result hardly needs to be spelt out. Unfortunately, the subject represents a level of speculation unusual even by the standards of contemporary theoretical physics, and it may turn out to be a wild-goose chase.

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  1. Sleep Disorders
    Looking at that list, one can easily fit the “middle-of-the-night” alien abducton theme into one or more of them.

    Digressing, many abduction reports I’ve read almost seem to be thinly veiled memories of the person’s birth experience that perhaps surface only under certain conditions of consiousness (especially in the US where most births take place in hospital delivery rooms). Just a thought that’s struck me from time to time.

  2. Mummy Dearest
    Greg, thanks for the links related to the Tut DNA study. I have come to the conclusion that Thuya’s son Aanen was “in the mix”, and it is through him that Thuya’s unique alleles resurface in the fetuses. I also reject that the KV55 mummy is Akhenaten. It is instead “most probably Smenkhkare”. Akhenaten still remains the best candidate as father of Ankhesenamun by Nefertiti, however Akhenaten himself appears to have been the son of Queen Tiye and Aanen (rather than Amenhotep III).

    This page provides a good explanation as to why the re-appearance of Thuya’s alleles in the fetuses is significant and requires DNA from a mummy that was not part of the test group:

    http://www.kv64.info/

    One of the interesting insights of this study is that royal pairs were generally not made from a full brother/sister combination. However, if a more conventional half-brother/sister relationship did not produce the required male heir, a full sibling might be called upon to fulfill the duty. Case in point, Akhenaten and Nefertiti had only daughters. Hence, the full brother of Nefertiti, namely Smenkhkare, produced the heir Tutankhamun for Akhenaten.

    Some will likely hold out hope that Nefertiti was not the full sister of Smenkhkare. Further mitochondrial DNA studies could resolve that issue.

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