Jean Paul Gassé

**Jean Paul Gassé** (French: [ʒɑ̃ pɔl gasse]; October 15th, 1899- ?) was the French scientist responsible for discovering Seaman, as well as the originator of Anthro-Bio Archaeology.

## Biography

Born in Paris at the turn of the century (1899), Jean Paul Gassé developed an early desire to explore that which would benefit all of mankind. Though young, Jean Paul was not short on academic genius and soon excelled at all his studies. Yet even amid such academic success, Jean Paul suffered due to his introverted nature and soon plummeted further into solitude. It was during this lonely time that Jean Paul embraced the field of biology - biological science in particular.

Expanding on his initial thoughts and ideas regarding biological science, Gassé was soon rewarded a scholarship to the University of Warsaw. It was his studies at the University and his future teachings at a local high school, which led Jean Paul to develop a new theory that "the forest and its inhabitants were learning as a single unit." Expanding on this theory, and through his studies on the earthworm, Jean Paul soon had written a thesis entitled, "The Mutual Effects and Earth's Symbiotic System Carried out in the Forest by Earthworms." It was in this text that the University of Paris soon discovered the genius of the young Gassé and opened its doors to him.

Gassé's further involvement with biological science intensified during discussions with his new roommate Kimo Masuda, a transfer student from Japan. It was the different personalities of the two men, which bound their friendship, yet also drove them to constantly test their ideals and beliefs. Much has been said that without the exuberant Kimo in constant discussion with the quiet Jean Paul that much of Jean Paul's work might have never happened. Four years later, however, Kimo would return to Japan leaving the brilliant Gassé to combine each other's philosophies and ideas into one unique mindset.

In 1932, Gassé was selected as a member of an investigating commission out to conduct a large-scale study of the Nile coastal ecosystem between Aswan and the city of Alexandria on the Nile River. During the 8-month course of the expedition, Gassé began discovering mutated bone fragments along the river's bed. While studying the fragments, Gassé determined first, that all these creatures had evolved independently over a short period of time by adapting to the environment. And secondly, that because this creature could interact and speak to human beings, it served as a medium to transmit human knowledge. In other words, this creature could acquire knowledge from the person it was speaking with and attain a human-like intellect. He also discovered that the bone fragments of these unknown creatures correlated with hieroglyphics found on the ruins of pyramid walls dating back to the ancient third dynasty. It was through this last hypothesis that Gassé believed that this new creature had in fact transmitted mathematics to the Ancient Egyptians.

Before he was to return for Paris, fate played its hand again when Gassé happened upon one of these living Seaman in the town of Alexandria, north of the Nile. The locals were aware of the living Seaman and Gassé was quick to procure some of the eggs to take back to study in Paris. Gassé quickly tried to breed the Seaman but his exhaustive efforts would fail time and again. Based on his comprehensive studies, Gassé would soon write a new theory, "The Examination of the Evolution of Living Creatures as Seen through Seaman's Adaptation to His External Environment and Speed of Organic Change. "In this thesis, it said while genes were being rearranged dynamically inside Seaman's cells, an adaptation is made to the environment." Moreover, while this creature interactively talked with humans, it created a medium for him to expand his human knowledge. In other words, he becomes more human-like by other's knowledge.

Fascinated by this newfound discovery, Gassé soon proposed his theory to the other brilliant minds of his time. Gassé's theory, however, was soon ridiculed, leading the already introverted Gassé to disappear from written history. Though later documents reveal that Gassé would surface occasionaly[sic], the only accurate accounts show that Gassé had met up with his friend Kimo on a remote island in Southeast Asia. Much else of Gassé's life and experiments performed on the island remain a mystery.

## References

1. ↑ The Seaman Expedition
2. ↑ Seaman.TV/北京原人博物館、ガゼー博士の人生 (Archived)
3. ↑ The Seaman Expedition