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Out on the Wire Episode 1.5: Workshop

Out on the Wire

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Are You Having a Phobia?

i'm constantly looking for interesting science narratives for audio stories. One of my current ideas begi s with jean baptiste lamark. Lamark thought that the characteristics you acquired during a lifetime could be passed on to your children. A darwin then comes along and sets us straight with natural selection. Pass forward 200 years, and it turns out that maybe la mark wasn't so wrong after all. The field of epigenetics is showing that some acquired traits can be pass on to offspring. E g, grandchildren of people that experienced p t s d having chemical hormonal signs of being stressed despite living normal lives. Your experiences, and not just the genes you inherited, could affect your great

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