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#174 — Life & Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Epigenetics

Epigenetics is a strange word, originally itas just another word for the wa be c embryo logyd. The word has been high jacked fashionably recently by people with a kind of neolamarchian bent to suggest that some genes are turned on and others are not. There may be epigenetic effects which do pass on to the next generation, may be even to the grandchild generation. But it's not one of these things that goes on forever,. Like crugenetic mutationst what is the current frontier of evnattheif you'd like to continue listening to this podcast, you'll need to subscribe at sam harris dot org.

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