[dirtboy]

The findings, from a project involving hundreds of scientists in 11 countries and detailed in 29 papers being published today, confirm growing suspicions that the stretches of "junk DNA" flanking hardworking genes are not junk at all. But the study goes further, indicating for the first time that the vast majority of the 3 billion "letters" of the human genetic code are busily toiling at an array of previously invisible tasks.

I'm not surprised.

I've had my own theory for some time that organisms can imprint changes on their own DNA during their lifetimes and pass those changes directly to offspring. It's the best way, IMO, to explain ingrained and unlearned behaviors.

[twigs]

Interesting you say that. I’ve wondered about something similar.