"But some chemicals, including phthalates and BPA, can change the way genes are expressed without altering the underlying genetic code, and that change is heritable. Your father passes along his low sperm count to you, and your sperm count goes even lower after you're exposed..."https://twitter.com/GQMagazine/status/1036972747107328000 …
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The striking thing to me is that greater sensitivity to the effect itself is part of what's passed on. So perhaps less a conserved state than positive feedback with the alien environmental variable? Fits my sense that epigenetics is fundamentally a relay of 2nd-order cybernetics.
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That's why I'm inclined to take suggestions of trauma-mediated transmission more seriously. High-level exceptions that engage an escalative systemic response driven by (its) repetition...
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