Lysenko rides again!
(Which doesn’t mean the studies are inaccurate.)
Damn you, grandpa!
Numbers 14:18, The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Looks like Lamarck was at least partially right.
Intriguing.
Reminds me of another study a while back; I’ll link if I turn it up again.
“Settled Science,” no doubt. There’s a consensus, don’t you know?
Oldplayer
Epi-gene. Old news
Paving the way for “Grandpa made me gay!”
So Danny, BJ Clinton’s only real biological child (of which we know), could have inherited a propensity for rape, in addition to a bent Johnson?
Sounds rather Jungian.
The sins of the father. Seven generations?
If true, then the Kennedys would be turning into a bunch of brain damaged alcoholic fools from birth...
It appears I’ve been spending down the family inheritance.
This is called “epigenetics”: the altering of the chemistry of individual DNA base pairs without altering the sequence.
It has been known for decades that some traits develop that are not encoded genetically. For example, some reptiles do not have XX and XY chromosomes, and turn male or female depending on whether they developed in an egg close to the center of the next (where it is warm) or closer to the edge.
There are abundant examples of traits that arise from factors other than DNA sequence, which we are only recently beginning to understand.
That statement is so raciss I am not allowed any sort of comment about it.
If events can alter future DNA of our descendants, then, in the future, people will start getting pregnant orally and anally. Guys will also start having babies, and women wont need men to get pregnant.
A man who is walloped with a baseball bat, will have grandchildren with bumps on their heads. And so on, and so forth....
Only people who lead perfect lives and don’t get into trouble and don’t do kinky things, will pass on healthy DNA.
Where’s my global warming bible?
Its been clear for a long time that there are mechanisms for retaining environmentally acquired changes in the genetic code and not simply through crude and aimless natural selection.
This is news?
We Irish have known this forever. Now, excuse me while I grab another Whiskey...