You are the rat your mother raised, biologically shaped for better or worse by the experiences of your ancestors... but not carved in stone. Epigenetics explained: "Like silt deposited on the cogs of a finely tuned machine after the seawater of a tsunami recedes, our experiences, and those of our forebears, are never gone, even if they have been forgotten. They become a part of us, a molecular residue holding fast to our genetic scaffolding... The genome has long been known as the blueprint of life, but the epigenome is life’s Etch A Sketch: Shake it hard enough, and you can wipe clean the family curse.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:16:27 +0000
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