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Mechanism and whether if transgenerational epigenetics happens in human is still unclear: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24679529


Indeed. Given that this research showed these particular studied effects were specific to particular muscles that were being exercised, it seems unlikely to transfer through entirely different set of cells and into offspring.

In fact, my uneducated first guess would be that the different methylation patterns are related to the actual buildup in strength, which itself would require some way of coding for the expression of certain genes differently in one set of muscle cells than in another.



The title is linkbait and mislead


There are blogs that lack of comment section and put "discuss on hackernews" instead.


Kool kid won't care, they're already builds next big thing with nodejs anyway..


>The alleged driver had previously served 7 months in prison for rape charges,

Only 7 months for rape?


When not convicted, that is some serious time.


That does seem absurdly low. I would think at least a couple years for a rape charge at the very least.


He was not convicted.


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