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BAMAD no. 64
Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
25 November 2009, 8 Kislev 5770
Contents:
1. The Sixth Sense Exists!
2. German and French newborns cry differently
3. Philadelphia Study:
European Admixture in African Americans and Non-European Admixture in Europeans
1. The Sixth Sense Exists!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1218401/
Yes-sixth-sense-The-depth-study-intriguing
-dreams-convinced-doctor.html
Yes, we do have a sixth sense: The in-depth study of our intriguing dreams that
convinced one doctor
By Sarah Chalmers
06th October 2009
Extracts:
On Friday, October 21, 1966, a mountain of coal waste, perched above the Welsh
mining village of Aberfan, broke loose and came flowing down uncontrollably.
Destabilised by recent rains, a river of black coal sludge, water and boulders
bore down on Aberfan. It steamrollered over a tiny cottage halfway down the
slope, thundered through Pantglas Junior School, obliterated a further 20 houses
- then finally came to rest.
A total of 144 people, including many children, were crushed or suffocated to
death in one of Britain's most horrific peacetime tragedies.
Every life lost was precious. But the death of 116 innocent children, killed in
the school, tore at the very heart of the nation. In a cruel irony, the
youngsters had been making their way back to their classrooms after singing All
Things Bright And Beautiful at morning assembly when the disaster struck.
No one in the close-knit community was unaffected by the tragedy and the
bereaved parents would never recover from their loss.
But for one family, the overriding grief was even more acute. For one of those
killed - ten-year-old Eryl Mai Jones - had not only predicted the catastrophe,
but had warned her mother of it, too.
In the days leading up to the atrocity, Eryl had told her mother she was 'not
afraid to die'. 'I shall be with Peter and June,' she added.
Eryl's busy mother offered her imaginative daughter a lollipop and thought no
more about it. Then, on October 20, the day before the disaster, Eryl said to
her mother: 'Let me tell you about my dream last night. I dreamt I went to
school and there was no school there. Something black had come down all over
it!'
The next day, Eryl's horrific premonition came to pass and she was killed
alongside schoolfriends Peter and June. They were buried side-by-side in a mass
grave, just as the youngster had predicted.
Tales like this, of horrific events 'seen' in dreams, litter history. And now a
comprehensive new book by medical doctor Larry Dossey - who has himself
experienced premonitory dreams - collates some of the most extraordinary
examples.
SEPTEMBER 11TH
The terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001 were preceded by a slew of
premonitions. A week before the attack, one North Carolina mother dreamt about
spinning into blackness and heard a man's voice repeating '2,830, 2,830' and a
name she couldn't make out.
'It sounded like Rooks or Horooks,' she said. Disturbed by the dream, the woman
cancelled tickets the family had to fly to Disneyland on September 11, despite
protestations from her husband that she was over-reacting.
When news emerged on September 11 of the planes flying into New York's Twin
Towers - with another hitting the Pentagon and a fourth crashing into a field in
Pennsylvania - the woman's caution was vindicated.
Most bizarrely, 2,830 - the number repeated over and over in her dream - was the
confirmed tally of deaths at that time. And the name - 'Rooks or Horooks?' - was
that of Michael Horrocks, first officer of United Airlines flight 175, which
crashed into the South Tower.
Of course, her vision was not specific enough for her to have done anything to
avert the tragedy, but it was nonetheless disturbing -
In an even more chilling example, World Trade Centre employee Lawrence Boisseau
had a dream in September that the towers were crashing down around him. A few
days later, his wife dreamt the streets of Manhattan were littered with debris.
The images were not specific enough to prevent Boisseau from going to work on
September 11 - and he perished there. But not before helping to rescue several
children stuck in a care centre on the ground floor.
Sometimes, premonitions allow the person to pinpoint a specific time and place,
leaving the dreamer enough time to alter the course of the disaster.
In one such instance, Dossey recounts the tale of a mother living in Washington
State who awoke at 2.30am from a nightmare. She had dreamt that a large
chandelier that hung above her baby's crib had fallen and crushed him.
In the dream, a violent storm was raging and the time on the clock read 4.35am.
Alarmed, the woman woke up, went into the next room and took the baby back to
her bed.
Two hours later, the couple were woken by a loud crash. They dashed into their
child's room to find the crib demolished by the chandelier, which had fallen
directly onto it.
In a further twist, a storm was raging - and the time on the clock read 4.35am.
Not all of those who dream of future events manage to interpret them correctly.
Indeed, one of the common features of premonitions is that they are often
fragmentary and vague.
But Dossey believes we all have the ability to predict the future and points to
studies by Dean Radin, a Californian researcher. Radin sat subjects in front of
a blank computer screen and told them an image would appear in five seconds.
Remarkably, before the image appeared, the subjects would become more agitated
if the image was of something grisly or upsetting than if it was of something
pleasant. It seems the subjects could sense what they were about to be
confronted with.
This is supported by data from train and plane accidents. One famous study from
the Fifties found that trains involved in accidents often had fewer passengers
than the same service the week before.
The theory is that commuters have some sense of an approaching accident and
alter their travel plans.
THE TITANIC
When the Titanic made her first - and last - voyage in 1912, many passengers had
a sense of foreboding. J. P. Morgan, one of the richest men in the world,
cancelled his passage at the last minute because of a hunch.
Interestingly, the vacancy rate on all four flights that crashed on September
11, 2001, was high.
Meanwhile, the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre's North and South
Towers were 74 and 81 per cent empty.
Indeed, the occupancy rate of all four doomed planes that day was a mere 21 per
cent - despite being commuter services.
Dossey's explanation for humans' ability to predict the future is rooted in
evolution. He says it makes sense that we would develop our ability to see
impending dangers and take appropriate measures.
'From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, the ability to bypass the physical
senses is the sort of ability that an intelligent, survival-oriented organism
might sooner or later develop.'
Furthermore, he believes we are more likely to have premonitions about those to
whom we are emotionally attached.
Through history, neurologists have proved a telepathic connection between some
particularly close individuals, such as twins. One of the most common forms of
premonition is forewarning of illness in a loved one.
But this sixth sense is not confined to humans. There are countless examples of
apparent premonitions among animals.
Just before the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, flamingoes on India's southern coast
fled, monkeys at Sri Lanka's Yala National Park stopped accepting bananas from
tourists and a elephants began to trumpet.
In one tale recounted by Dossey, a woman was driving her car with her cat on the
back seat. The cat became increasingly agitated, before jumping into the front
and biting the woman, forcing her to stop.
At just that moment, a large tree crashed onto the road, just a few yards ahead
of the woman. If she had continued driving, she would have been killed.
2. German and French newborns cry
differently
Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.064
Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language
Birgit Mampe et al.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/
Summary
Human fetuses are able to memorize auditory stimuli from the external world by
the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour
in both music and language [1,2,3]. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over
other voices [4,5,6,7,8] and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed
via intonation contours in maternal speech (?motherese?) [9]. Their perceptual
preference for the surrounding language [10,11,12] and their ability to
distinguish between prosodically different languages [13,14,15] and pitch
changes [16] are based on prosodic information, primarily melody. Adult-like
processing of pitch intervals allows newborns to appreciate musical melodies and
emotional and linguistic prosody [17]. Although prenatal exposure to
native-language prosody influences newborns' perception, the surrounding
language affects sound production apparently much later [18]. Here, we analyzed
the crying patterns of 30 French and 30 German newborns with respect to their
melody and intensity contours. The French group preferentially produced cries
with a rising melody contour, whereas the German group preferentially produced
falling contours. The data show an influence of the surrounding speech prosody
on newborns' cry melody, possibly via vocal learning based on biological
predispositions.
3. Philadelphia Study:
European Admixture in African Americans and Non-European Admixture in Europeans
Research Article
Brit-Am Summarization in Plain Language:
In Philadelphia a sample test indicated that African Americans are ca. 10% of
white female ancestry and 31% European.
There was also a "2% Native American contribution to Philadelphian African
American ancestry".
European Americans are ca.7% of non-European female ancestry and 2% of male
non-European ancestry.
Evaluation of Group Genetic Ancestry of
Populations from Philadelphia and Dakar in the Context of Sex-Biased Admixture
in the Americas
http://www.plosone.org/article/
info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.
0007842#pone-0007842-g001
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