Search Results for: Epigenetics

Homosexuality, epigenetics, and zebras

Posted on January 12, 2013 by gcochran9

The recent article in the Quarterly Review of Biology has some good points. It does not argue that homosexuality is adaptive, which would be silly. It does not argue for Lamarckian epigenetics, which would also be silly. I should also … Continue reading →

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Epigenetics

Posted on October 26, 2012 by gcochran9

As I understand it, in some circles,  there is a burgeoning hope that practice in this generation will somehow improve performance in the next – based on a word they have heard but do not understand. That word is epigenetics. … Continue reading →

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I am not a Moron

Posted on November 3, 2017 by gcochran9

So said Agustin Fuentes on Twitter, a few days ago. He’s the same guy that said “Genes don’t do anything by themselves; epigenetics and complex metabolic and developmental systems are at play in how bodies work. The roundworm C. elegans … Continue reading →

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Perils of Incorrect Thought

Posted on January 23, 2016 by harpend

A colleague pointed me to this essay by an academic who mentioned in a submitted paper that the possibility of biological differences among human groups ought to be considered.  His submission was firmly rejected in the face of “… expletives and … Continue reading →

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Not Even Yong

Posted on October 17, 2015 by gcochran9

There was some noise at ASHG about someone (Tuck Ngun) claiming that he’d found evidence supporting that idea (published a couple of years ago) that homosexuality might be caused by epigenetic leakage. Which I doubted.  Everyone seems to have disbelieved … Continue reading →

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Back by Popular Demand

Posted on April 2, 2015 by gcochran9

One of the interesting things about the growing enthusiasm for transgenerational epigenetics – the kind where your grandfather was poor or discriminated against which somehow makes you terrible at algebra today, except not if you’re Korean – is that it … Continue reading →

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The Great IQ Depression

Posted on March 7, 2014 by gcochran9

We hear that poverty can sap brainpower,  reduce frontal lobe function,  induce the  fantods, etc.  But exactly what do we mean by ‘poverty’?  If we’re talking about an absolute, rather than relative, standard of living,  most of the world today … Continue reading →

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