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2014-10-07 02:42
The lead author sounds like a terrible person, purposely conflating insect reproduction with a implied human connectionWas there a specific quote you're referring to? She did specifically say: "But we don't know yet whether this applies to other species."
Don't confuse the study authors for the journalist taking the story which
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/02/baby-looks-like-ex-research
human connection that completely doesn't exist.Just because a human connection hasn't yet been proven, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This is just the first study establishing that the effect exists... Humans absolutely are known to be greatly affected by other epigenetic effects, as TFA and tanuki both mention. It may take decades to determine how significantly affected, if at all, humans are.
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