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Re: fault is not in the stars but in the brain eating zombies

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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · Science & Technology

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from recent New Scientist article: ""There was a trickle of findings of epigenetic inheritance in animals through the 20th century, and it is turning into a flood about now," says Russell Bonduriansky, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. One of his favourite recent examples involves the water flea, daphnia. When predators are around, the fleas develop large, defensive spines. If they then reproduce, their offspring also develop these spines - even when not exposed to predators.

For Bonduriansky, this suggests a possible adaptive function of epigenetic inheritance - the fine-tuning of an individual to short-term variations in its environment. "There's no lag time for the offspring to respond to the environment on their own," he says."

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