Virus is very specific with respect to its infection mode,Hyper disease theory may resolve the problem of Dino extinction,leaving other pre-existing theories as uncertain.
It’s true that Dinosaurs dominated the world few million years back, but what cause of their extinction, it is still unclear & uncertain. So many theories put forwarded, no one could explained the proper reason. But according to new theory, popularly known as “Hyper Disease Theory” a virus infection might be the main cause of this kind of apocalyptic destruction. Not enough response has been raised towards “Hyper Disease Theory” from scientific community. As it is obvious for all new emerging Ideas, which underestimated first and later will be approved. This is what happened with this Theory. Before proving any theory, it’s necessary to disprove the pre-existing theory. So i would like to comment (criticize) on those theories in very few sentences which theoretically can be explained the Dino extinction, but poorly practically acceptable. Later I will come to “Hyper Disease Theory”: Concept & its limitations.
Theories like Asteroid Impact, Spontaneous change in global climate, food scarcity, Domination by Primates can partly explain the Dinosaur extinction, but lack the solid proof of specificity. Above mentioned theories are stand apart when the question arise: “Why only Dinosaurs became victim, leaving other creatures unharmed”? It is uncertain to know that why asteroids hit only Dinosaurs. Same case with theories which postulated based on food scarcity, change in global climate, Domination by primates. All theories lack solid proof, i.e. SPECIFICITY.
Viruses are very specific with respect to their tropism, and show specificity towards any individual or group of individuals belongs to the same species. When we turn back the pages of history we came to know that, so many civilizations wiped out due to impact of deadly infections. Hyper Disease theory is postulated on this fact. This theory completely explains the proper reason for extinction of monster creatures.
In simple terms, a kind of viral infection to the gonadal cells of Dinosaurs make them sterile and resulted to become extincted in a very short period of time. Those infected Dinosaurs died due to the progression of disease as well as they couldn’t succeed in the continuing their generations. So for these reasons these extreme creatures died in very short duration. There is experimental proof for the gonadal viral infection in many organisms, including mammals, resulted through ERV’s (Endogenous Retroviral) infection in course of evolution. Hyper disease theory has solid proof of SPECIFICITY as the viral infections are very specific with respect to their infection mode.
I want to clarify that the original idea of Hyper Disease theory doesn’t have the concept of gonadal infection, when i was doing a project in my M.Sc. on HERV involvement in human evolution; i came to know about the germinal infection. I just hyperlinked the concept of germinal infection to the Dinosaurs extinction. This concept is to be examined properly. Any way the theory i discussed might be something hybrid, but if this theory will become completely proved, then below phrase will become universal truth:
“Extreme largest creature of the earth might be conquered by extreme smallest creature of the earth.”
It’s true that Dinosaurs dominated the world few million years back, but what cause of their extinction, it is still unclear & uncertain. So many theories put forwarded, no one could explained the proper reason. But according to new theory, popularly known as “Hyper Disease Theory” a virus infection might be the main cause of this kind of apocalyptic destruction. Not enough response has been raised towards “Hyper Disease Theory” from scientific community. As it is obvious for all new emerging Ideas, which underestimated first and later will be approved. This is what happened with this Theory. Before proving any theory, it’s necessary to disprove the pre-existing theory. So i would like to comment (criticize) on those theories in very few sentences which theoretically can be explained the Dino extinction, but poorly practically acceptable. Later I will come to “Hyper Disease Theory”: Concept & its limitations.
Theories like Asteroid Impact, Spontaneous change in global climate, food scarcity, Domination by Primates can partly explain the Dinosaur extinction, but lack the solid proof of specificity. Above mentioned theories are stand apart when the question arise: “Why only Dinosaurs became victim, leaving other creatures unharmed”? It is uncertain to know that why asteroids hit only Dinosaurs. Same case with theories which postulated based on food scarcity, change in global climate, Domination by primates. All theories lack solid proof, i.e. SPECIFICITY.
Viruses are very specific with respect to their tropism, and show specificity towards any individual or group of individuals belongs to the same species. When we turn back the pages of history we came to know that, so many civilizations wiped out due to impact of deadly infections. Hyper Disease theory is postulated on this fact. This theory completely explains the proper reason for extinction of monster creatures.
In simple terms, a kind of viral infection to the gonadal cells of Dinosaurs make them sterile and resulted to become extincted in a very short period of time. Those infected Dinosaurs died due to the progression of disease as well as they couldn’t succeed in the continuing their generations. So for these reasons these extreme creatures died in very short duration. There is experimental proof for the gonadal viral infection in many organisms, including mammals, resulted through ERV’s (Endogenous Retroviral) infection in course of evolution. Hyper disease theory has solid proof of SPECIFICITY as the viral infections are very specific with respect to their infection mode.
I want to clarify that the original idea of Hyper Disease theory doesn’t have the concept of gonadal infection, when i was doing a project in my M.Sc. on HERV involvement in human evolution; i came to know about the germinal infection. I just hyperlinked the concept of germinal infection to the Dinosaurs extinction. This concept is to be examined properly. Any way the theory i discussed might be something hybrid, but if this theory will become completely proved, then below phrase will become universal truth:
“Extreme largest creature of the earth might be conquered by extreme smallest creature of the earth.”
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This is among one of the theories proposed for Dino extinction,The main supporting idea behind this theory is the specificity of virus infection.and there is chance of germinal Infection(reference to HERV).The gonadal infection make Dino become sterile and extinct in very short time,leaving other non dino creatures unharmed.But this kind of Specificity is not seen in theories like extinction due to Ice age(Gloabal weather Change),Asteroid impact, scarcity of food,domination of Primates.
yes you are correct,this theory is on way to prove.
Is there any chance of human apocalypse, because now a-days new deadly viruses are emerging.The best example was Spanish flu.What are chances of getting human race will be wiped out by such viral infection.
Stephen Hawking in one of his conversation regarding the various causes of extinction of human race,he surely mentioned viral infection will be one of influencing factor.But he pointed on genetically engineered viruses,which may be more distructive in future.
Why genetically engineered one,the naturally made viruses are deadly enough to cause the apocalyptic extinction.I want to take HIV as an example to resolve this concept more clearly.The main success of HIV is its route of transmission as well as its long incubation period,so these make HIV to infect as many as individuals,we dont have yet an effective antivirus against HIV. Just think what happened if HIV undegone such a mutation which makes it,to transmit through aerosoles or just by coughing or sneezing. You know the mortality of HIV,if it chooses this way for its transmission.....I think history will repeat,then it will be our time to be extincted from the planet earth.
shut up rashid
Dear Sam,
That was just prediction(Hypothesis),OK.We cant deny the History. Mutation can lead to any drastic changes in Virus.We dont have any proof why Spanish influenza was so much infectious,and one point should note that,H1N1 was genetically distinct from existing strains of influenza.
As we are in the race to decode the virus,we dont feel shame to think possibilities.
Yes, We should one step ahead than the virus.
Good one...and its quite possible that such a virus did exist and swept clean the earth of the Dinosaurs..!! This theory has a great chance to be proved than the other theories that have been proposed...though a good deal laborious...Btw, good writing...Keep it going...
For further reading on real time endogenization refer,
Stoye, J. (2006). Koala retrovirus: a genome invasion in real time Genome Biology, 7 (11) DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-11-241
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