You are what your father ate

University of Massachusetts Medical School ^ | December 23, 2010 | Unknown

[Billthedrill]

Knowing what your parents were doing before you were conceived is turning out to be important in determining what disease risk factors you may be carrying," said Oliver J. Rando...

I'm fairly certain that was having sex but I've never really asked.

[Arrowhead1952]

Well, I guess I am a hog because my dad and mom lived on pork. Homemade sausage, bacon and ham were the everyday menu.

[surroundedbyblue]

My daughter is hosed. Her dad is the biggest junk-eater I’ve ever seen.

[Hardastarboard]

Makes one wonder how this would have affected Barney Frank’s children, if he had had them.

[muawiyah]

Lamarck didn't know much about DNA (and neither did anyone else at the time) but he did suspect what we now call "epigenetics".

Kind of like the fellow who'd figured out Quarks before there was a good working model of what an atom was like. We don't right off hand know his name.

[muawiyah]

Imagine what the descendants of those AlQaida guys at Gitmo will be like ~ you know, the fellows who jus’ loved Fruit Loops!

[grey_whiskers]

Hmm, wonder what the good folks on Darwin Central make of this.

Smells reminiscent of Lysenkoism-lite (by analogy? by proxy?) from here.

Cheers!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Randy Larsen]

ROTFLMFAO!

[PapaBear3625]

This idea is almost Lamarckian, although Darwin suggested that it may be a factor. Lamarck theorized that environmental stresses could alter genetic transmission as a dynamic in evolution.

If you consider DNA as the "software", then epigenetic factors could be considered "user settings". I would not be surprised to find that there is some currently-unknown mechanism for transmitting such settings along with the DNA.

[exit82]

Oh no, that means I’m a White Castle hamburger!

[AGreatPer]

I’m a Big Boy.

[TaMoDee]

Make that Marinated Herring with a nice dry Champagne as a wash. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

[pierrem15]

Paging Dr. Lysenko...

[Tax-chick]

Is this what you mentioned on that fashion thread? I knew I’d *just* seen something on the topic.

[little jeremiah]

Bushpilot pinged me in connection with 0homo (that’s a good name someone just told me he uses). So I was wondering what the connection was. It was either this article or a similar one.

Haven’t read it yet.

It’s awful when I have things I have to do.

I keep reading FR instead.

[Tax-chick]

Me, too. I need to put all the little boys to bed and get some laundry on. 11 people’s wash is a constant effort!

[little jeremiah]

I can imagine.

I have a sinkful plus full of dishes (no dishwasher in this house, not even any hot water!) plus herb stuff, consultations, and stuff to write...

[exit82]

I’m a Big Boy.

You know I could have driven a truck through THAT comment!

Hope you had a Merry Christmas,FRiend!