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And in the field of epigenetics, findings that chronic stress or severe stress events impacts your offspring in ways generally agreed upon to be negative (abili
by dota_fanatic 11y ago
And in the field of epigenetics, findings that chronic stress or severe stress events impacts your offspring in ways generally agreed upon to be negative (ability to socialize, cope with challenges, etc.) before they're even born, before they're even conceived...
- Terr_ 11y ago> generally agreed upon to be negative IMO it's worth being very careful in any genetic discussion (epi- or otherwise) before declaring an adaptation to be "negative", especially if it's probably the result of thousands or millions of years of "battle tested" evolutionary winnowing that we can't really see and appreciate. (For example, the side-bonus of sickle-cell anemia is resistance to malaria.) At best we have to add a big load of qualifiers, e.g.: "For this group in this context during this infinitesimal slice of human history, it didn't seem to help."