This is an interesting article about the ways that sociobiology has been internalized.
"Once it was the devil. Now it is the gene that made you do it."
Another NYT article claims to have found the reason why some twins differ so much from each other. Apparently they can have different "epigenomes" shortly after birth. BUT, what is actually interesting, is that the epigenomes differ more and more, the more time the twins spend away from each other. Which is strange, that a gene changes over time. They think the reasons are "personal experiences and elements in the environment - including toxic agents like tobacco smoke - feed back onto the genome by changing the pattern of epigenetic marks."
Posted by bluprnt at July 4, 2005 01:43 AM