I'm doing my usual thing, surfing a link or two and come across a discourse on whether Madness and Genius are related, or technically if Geniuses themselves are "Mad".
http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/human-intelligence/mad-genius.htm
Obviously I instantly thought of Sciforums because we have our fair share of Geniuses and Madmen discussing topics here.
What somehow eventually got found was an article on an Icelandic team that had been studying Neuregulin 1 (nrg1) within the population of Iceland in regards to it being a component of Schizophrenia. This led to finding a few more articles again looking at populations that "share the same ancestry" and a query had been made Why NRG1(or other active proponent) had managed to "survive" and not died off in regards to "evolution".
Well I have a proposed theory and obviously it's based on the Ancestral linage. The linage of the Vikings, as obviously all lands studied have them in common. The Vikings were known to have "Berserkers", warriors that would become so enraged that they would fight with wreckless abandon. However nobody to my knowledge has really considered the depth of a Berserkers "problems". You see if a person couldn't be of use to a community then they would become a burden, a person suffering Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia in a Viking community would have been useless, unless a use was found. That use of course being the "Beserker Warrior".
It would explain why the currently portrayed "Diseases" survived, because those diseases became established as proportion of being a Warrior, in some respects even "Revered".
Throughout a number of countries histories conflicts continued to erupt and warriors were still required. (The Picts, Scots and Celts) It could be implied although "Berserkers" weren't units of these civilisations armies, the actual wars themselves are what continued the active disease proponents.
If this is of course the case it would suggest that Military conflict is going to continue genetic traits that would otherwise die out.
http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/human-intelligence/mad-genius.htm
Obviously I instantly thought of Sciforums because we have our fair share of Geniuses and Madmen discussing topics here.
What somehow eventually got found was an article on an Icelandic team that had been studying Neuregulin 1 (nrg1) within the population of Iceland in regards to it being a component of Schizophrenia. This led to finding a few more articles again looking at populations that "share the same ancestry" and a query had been made Why NRG1(or other active proponent) had managed to "survive" and not died off in regards to "evolution".
Well I have a proposed theory and obviously it's based on the Ancestral linage. The linage of the Vikings, as obviously all lands studied have them in common. The Vikings were known to have "Berserkers", warriors that would become so enraged that they would fight with wreckless abandon. However nobody to my knowledge has really considered the depth of a Berserkers "problems". You see if a person couldn't be of use to a community then they would become a burden, a person suffering Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia in a Viking community would have been useless, unless a use was found. That use of course being the "Beserker Warrior".
It would explain why the currently portrayed "Diseases" survived, because those diseases became established as proportion of being a Warrior, in some respects even "Revered".
Throughout a number of countries histories conflicts continued to erupt and warriors were still required. (The Picts, Scots and Celts) It could be implied although "Berserkers" weren't units of these civilisations armies, the actual wars themselves are what continued the active disease proponents.
If this is of course the case it would suggest that Military conflict is going to continue genetic traits that would otherwise die out.