The bigger problem is the question of epigenetics is simply irrelevant. Even if environmental factors were a larger causal agent in development, it would not then follow that "we could have some control over the way genetic traits are expressed."
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"Even if the environment in which humans develop were a large causal factor in how they develop, this wouldn't imply humans could...manipulate the environment to affect development"? I hate playing "who's more obvi taking an instrumental position and phoning in the details?" but.
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I imbued the author with a greater level of control than is necessary from her position here. One doesn't need the voodoo of epigenetics to recognize the possibility of something like genre manipulation. But this is a secondary and largely unrelated point.
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A) shouldn't diss the possession cults B) this is exactly what disappoints me so much. Under any other circumstances y'all would be appropriately excited at 'cybernetics in some missing strata, cultural/biological immanence with signal spikes in a sequence of critical periods'...
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Like it's a fucking emitter spectrum! And how is a system of wide (genetic) and narrow (epigenetic) circuits, triadic time (information/expression/phenotype), etc not unusually 'cut the research there is some slack'-worthy
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Don't give a shit about the rest, "colonialization covers HBD evidence via epigenetics" is just a plausible hypothesis that there won't be a worthwhile answer about for a decade and Isn't The Point. /rant, sry
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Is there a text under discussion here? ...
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... But in the absence of more, have to go with
@realMaxCastle (probably predictably). The Lamarckian wish-fulfillment is just too blatant. Every generation of communists goes through the same routine.2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
... At least reverse transcriptase edits DNA. Epigenetics is just Lysenko's ghost.
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