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RE: Where do animal hibernation and fallen leaves really come from.
Sounds like you are a good case of epigenetics then! thanks for sharing your experience with arctic darkness.
Sounds like you are a good case of epigenetics then! thanks for sharing your experience with arctic darkness.
Now I live in a middle climatic zone. So I'm curious will my children, born here, retain the genetic characteristics of my body, which will allow them to live normally in the far North.
After all I'm only a first generation northerner. And most likely my genetic mutations are not so stable to so easily move to the next generation.
Your parents likely have whatever you have as will your children, but in this case without the stimulation very early on in development and childhood those genes will not likely be turned on in the same way they were in your case.
The DNA has not changed, simply how it is expressed in certain individuals based on external stimuli at a crucial time during development.
Of course you are right about the fact that DNA will not be lost. And I also tend to believe that without stimulants in the early stages of a child's development, the body's unnecessary abilities will simply be suppressed.
Thank you for this dialogue!