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#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics

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Is There Any Evidence That Epigenetic Adaptations Are Adaptive?

Sincewe genetic adaptations, do you think that we can also talk about epigenetic adaptations? I mean, is there any of that,Epigenetic adaptations? Yes, i think so. A, it's hardto establish that, you know, definitively, because to really show that an epigenetic change is adaptive, you need to be able to link it up to survival or reproduction. So if you have under nutrition early in life, and then you see the body kind of setting up through epigenetic and other kinds of mechanisms, a change in how it responds to undernutrition in ways that seem adaptive or sort of helpfulThen i think that would, youknow, that is sort of de

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