About a year ago my wife and I were having a very intense conversation. My son toddles up (that's what it is called when small children walk. Their form of locomotion is called toddling) and starts a loud string of baby babble.

My wife turns to him and says. Do you have something to add to the conversation JerBear?

"Yes" he says

"What is is" I say

"I pooped" he said.

... and he had.

lol

Also to clarify. While I am less drunk. My wife is a great person, but it takes a LOT to deal with the massive number of issues I have.

She also has an empathy intensive job. So when it comes to me there's a bit of "the cobblers children have no shoes" thing going on.

What, does she have to wipe your bum or something?

Nothing like that, but I do have an impressive number of (diagnosed) mental and physical health issues.

Some of them are genetic, some were induced by my childhood.

Some are of unknown origin.

On that note, epigenetics is bullshit.

No it isn't...

Not the theory itself, but they way it moved in and out of scientific theory.

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For decades the scientific community shuned and eschewed it. Saying it was innacurate, not real, etc.

Because it had the potential to rock evoloutionary theory to it's core.

lol

keep in mind I am not 100% sober here.

Theories aren't immediately accepted, moron.

It takes time for evidence to build up.

When I was in school and they taught evoloutionary theory it was very specifically taught that epigenetics was untrue.

Like specifically

from elementary to college.

Did they use the word "epigenetics"?

traits earned through a lifetime are not passed on genetically to any progeny.

That is true.

That's what epigenetics is.

No, it isn't.

What is it then?

The epigenome is the epigenome, not the genome itself.

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the guy who stream sniped ice

It is chemical modifications to histones and DNA.

So my utter layman understanding of epigenitics is as follows:

Also, epigenetics is not necessarily traits earned in a lifetime being passed to progeny.

If I spend every day of my life working out my right arm, and only my right arm. Then, while not a guarantee there would be an increase chance of my kinds having a right arm beefier than their left one. Or it would beef up easier if they worked out themselves.

not that they would be more muscular because i exercised.

For example, starvation can induce thinner heads in offspring, but that's not passing down being skinny, that's inducing a completely separate trait.