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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Epigenetic Inheritance

Guardian UK: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes - New finding is first example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children
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2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Not surprising. A really blatant example is how so called fat genes in some populations have been handed down from our species experience of the last ice age. The memory of that time is even linguistically evident in the use of that word. Fat times = good times etc.

10:42 AM
Jim Sande said...

What I find interesting in this article is this idea that comes through over and over that there are very subtle forces at play that affect each and every individual. I would suspect that most of us don't really have a good handle on it either. We know many things but not these subtler things. Life is very very rich.

11:27 AM

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