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The problem with babies from the "worst white trash family" are environmental and maybe genetic from past environmental factors. How many white trash parents h
by cullenking 16y ago
The problem with babies from the "worst white trash family" are environmental and maybe genetic from past environmental factors. How many white trash parents have you seen driving around smoking with their kids in the car? Fetal alcohol syndrom? etc etc.
- lukev 16y agoAnd as bad as smoke and fetal alcohol syndrome are, they aren't genetic. A mentally retarded person will have perfectly normal offspring, provided their disability is environmental. Evolution works by selection. Darwin, not Lamark.
- sudont 16y agoThere is some amount of chromosomal damage that will now occur with our cheap, plastic materials and water tables full of pharmaceuticals.
- schwabacher 16y agoThere are some epigenetic changes like DNA methylation that can be inherited from parents and effect gene expression in children. Things like diet, smoking, and the age of a mother almost certainly have some effect on the development of her children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics I find the fact that your genes don't get a fresh start with your children pretty sobering. Kind of makes you want to go exercise :) Edit: had a hash tag in the wikipedia link I didnt mean to put there