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Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:36PM (#20198632)
Yeah, I've been trying to dig something up. Here's all there is in the 8th edition -- like just 3 sentences: https://books.google.com/books?id=5nZlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=...
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:48PM (#20198671)
They didn’t generally refer to it explicitly as epigenetics - they tended to cover the exact mechanisms. Check out pg 358’s dedicated subsection to methylation, for example. The word epigenetics won’t be mentioned, but it’s one of the classic epigenetic mechanisms.
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:20AM (#20200132)
I'm not sure if I understand that section correctly, but it sounds like it's talking not about inheritance across organisms, but about replication within an organism?
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:46AM (#20202853)
Methylation and acetylation of sex chromosomes is inherited. In somatic tissues it affects downstream development; in gonads, it becomes a heritable trait.