313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Evolution of Human Reproductive Physiology
If humans were rats we're not then that would suggest that you know sight it's not just cycles of deprivation but that it's kind of a linear thing and if you have a deprived family then that will kind of echo down the generations now in humans. That transmission of those tags does not happen we know this it i mean it literally does not happen when the egg and the sperm fuse then all of the dna is reset to zero in your mother's cell that cell was determined before she was born. It doesn't work in some systems it does like c elegans and people use it in all sorts of funky interest in and it's quite coolbut yeah life is infinitely varied further
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