Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1932, Page 20

\\ THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932. AUTUNIN SADNESS || what's What and Where CALLED HERITAGE Yraced by Scientist to Man’s Hibernating Animal Ancestors. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The melancholy of Autumn may be a deep-seated human heritage from hf- bernating animal ancestors. This explanation is advanced by Oliver L. Reiser, Pittsburgh University professor, in the current issue of the Psychoanalytical Review issued here The shortening of the days which follows the autumnal equinox., Dr. Reiser points out, seems to be associated with a depressed metabolism among hibernating animals which may be a hysiological response to the diminish- ng light stimulation of the organisms. This lowered metabolism, in turn gets off the nervous mechanism which causes the creatures to crawl imo holes, where they “sleep” through the Winter months, when they would be unable to find sufficient food outside to sustain the metabolic level of active life. The hysiological processes that constitute iving are reduced to the minimum at which they can persist, so that the ani- mal, expending almost no energy, is able to live for a long time on its own accumulated fat reserve While there is no evidence that the metabolism of man varies with the sea- sons, a physiological response which ‘was once so vital to the survival of the organism hardly could have been elimi- nated in the course of evolution with- out leaving some traces in the nervous system, Reiser hol This he térms a ‘“biological memory™ of those distant days and considers it the probable basis for the sadness that comes over human beings in the temperate zone with the yellowing leaves and the harvest Similarly might be explained the elation of Spring, when the increasing metabolism tended to drive the hibernating crea- tures out of their dens. This constitutes one phase of a theory developed by the Pittsburgh professor that the religious impuises of man can be traced back directly responses of the lower organisms—the tendencies to approach or retreat from a source of illumination that are known as “positive and negative helio-trop- Evidence is accumulating, he points ouf, that sunlight acting upon inorganic materials played a major part in the original chemical synthesis of proto- lasm and hence in the beginning of fe on earth. “If light did function in the original synthesis of protoplasm,” he asks, “is it too fantastic to suppose that living systems have retained a biological mem- ory of a cosmic environment with whish they aspire again to communicate? Let us suppose that life has retained a memory of the original energy which gave it birth. It is also conceivable that life has perceived an implicit de- sire again to react in sympathy with the form of radiant energy which cradled it.” ‘The mechanical light responses, it is inted out, among the lower forms of ife were responses of the whole or- ganism. Then, in the course of evolu- tion, certain tissues became especially sensitive to stimulation, and these grad- ually migrated to the inside of the body and became the material out of which the nervous system was built up. Fin- ally, as the crowning step, came the brain and the cerebral cortex of verte- brates and the appearance of “con- scious” behavior. In this process a strange thing hap- pened. The animal tissue phylogene- tically most intimately associated with light was imprisoned in darkness. It retained these “biological memories,” Reiser holds. These impelled it to struggle towards the light again. So when the level of the brain was reach- ed the brain tissue pushed a part of itself outwards into direct contact with light—the eyes. It can be shown, he explains, that these visual organs developed outwards from the brain rather than from the peripheral surface of the body inwards. At the same time, as the brain de- veloped, came the great specialization and enlargement of specific areas of brain tissue—the visual lobes of the cortex and the optic thalamus below the cortex—for the reception and co- ordination of visual stimuli. But a light stimulus is not carried directly to a higher center where it becomes a factor in conscious activity. It must pass by a devious course through nerve tissue in the sub-cortical regions of the brain whose reactions do not rise into consciousness. In these regions the light stimulus causes reactions which themselves initiate stimuli to the brain cortex SHIP AND TRAVEL VIA THE 4 ROUTE € OF THE SunsHiNe SpeCIAL to ARIZONA F.E. 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