Evolution

SOL

All life consists of proteins made from chains of amino acids. We can now consider the absolute simplest chain, as two amino acids, a start and a stop to a chain. Anything more complicated such as the macromolecule of DNA would smack of creationism.

The start of life on Earth must have had a very basic mechanism for protection against UV radiation and ability to intake the right nutrients in the right quantity, otherwise it would not have survived. These mechanisms, as we have already discussed are Circadian Rhythms and homeostasis. And as our hypothesis suggests these two mechanisms are controlled by synthesis of serotonin and melatonin. Melatonin is known to have restorative and antioxidant properties.

Protection

We suggest the very first nucleic acid was peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and glycol nucleic acid (GNA). Because of intense UV radiation in the early days of Earth, both PNA and GNA were prone to damage. However the production of melatonin at night acted as a repair mechanism. We know this mechanism today as Circadian Rhythms.

Nutrients

All life needs energy in the form of nutrients to exist. The ability to intake the right quantity and quality of nutrients is critical for survival. A function of SOL is to create the natural balance necessary to generate equilibrium of nutrient intake. This process as explained earlier is the balance of serotonin and melatonin. We know this mechanism as homeostasis.

SOL – Mutation – Speciation – 4bn years of evolution

Our hypothesis suggests that through various chemical reactions SOL had the potential to produce phospholipids and fatty acids with potential to produce a membrane.

We suggest SOL could synthesise PNA/GNA, but it could also replicate. Some PNA/GNA, in replications, was damaged by UV radiation and unable to be repaired by melatonin, which created mutations. Some of these mutations also had damage from UV radiation and mutated again, which we think of as the start of speciation. PNA/GNA eventually developed into RNA and eventually DNA.

It was crucial for SOL to gain mobility, as nutrient resources in once place would not be sustainable. Our thinking suggests a gliding ability to begin with and then flagella which eventually evolved into human legs and arms.

For flagella to work, needed a nervous system and as such a ventricle system developed with extensions of a brain stem and central nervous system. To remember mobility the cerebellum developed, the first real brain, capable of memory of movement. This was protected by the first circumventricular organ, the choroid plexus. Later in humans was development of the other circumventricular organs to protect the evolving cerebral cortex. This provided humans with thought, learning, emotion and further memory.

Through all of this mutation and speciation, all life maintained the vital two mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms and homeostasis for protection and survival.

Human body/brain today

Some more radical thinking; SOL has the potential to be inherently present in all life today within mitochondria in the human body. We believe there is a connection with Acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase (ASMT) gene being present in both x and y chromosomes.

Many areas of the brain recognised by current scientific understanding we believe are not in the brain. These areas of the limbic system including the thalamus, hypothalamus and circumventricular organs are on the “body side” of the blood-brain barrier.

Our thinking is that our body/brain has two distinct functions;

• Protection and survival which is controlled by our hypothalamus as part of our autonomic system on the body side of the BBB.
• Thought, learning, emotion and memory controlled by our brain, areas containing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Understanding SOL provides explanation of how all life works today and how life started on Earth.