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Author Topic:   The Koala, Lamark and Epigenetics
NoNukes
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Message 10 of 43 (774890)
12-24-2015 12:29 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by LamarkNewAge
12-24-2015 11:08 AM


Re: Perhaps the lactose issue wasn't a good one.
I think of the brain as possibly being similar to a floppy disc where information can be learned in life then passed on to generations.
In the case of mammals, there are plenty of more conventional methods for passing along information. Mammals tend to spend time hanging out with mama which means that behavioral information can be passed on by teaching/learning.
Assuming a brain is a floppy disk, what part of that disk could possible be passed on genetically or even via epigenetics? What is the mechanism?

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NoNukes
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Message 22 of 43 (774909)
12-24-2015 4:04 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by LamarkNewAge
12-24-2015 1:35 PM


Re: Perhaps the lactose issue wasn't a good one.
It seems that there are non-DNA expressions at work.
You have not described this seeming.
I have been thinking of using the example of a human breeding foxes so that by the 26th generation, all in a breed we able to respond to the "sit" command when none could at first. But Darwinian theory supporters will just say the genetic information "was there to start with" or some DNA change (or some "standard theory" change) can be explained.
But you know better, right?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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NoNukes
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Message 33 of 43 (774939)
12-25-2015 10:59 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by LamarkNewAge
12-24-2015 9:56 PM


Re: Getting back to something earlier.
Which came first; the brain or the thoughts?
Oooh. I think I've got this one.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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