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This newsletter is about a striking finding that disproves much of what we believe about genetics.
A number of years ago, the Human Genome Project was announced.
Over 10 years, they mapped every gene in the human genome.
But honestly, virtually no new cures, remedies, or disease carriers ever materialized from this research.
A lot of money was spent on the project, but so far, it’s not much help to humanity.
The big problem with the Human Genome Project is it’s based on a flawed theory.
The theory is that genes dictate everything.
But this is a huge misconception.
Do you know that it’s called the fundamental dogma of biology?
A dogma is just a belief, like a political belief.
And belief does not have to have any foundation in reality.
So this dogma of biology is really nothing more than a belief.
The belief is that all the information flows from the nucleus of the cell.
It flows from the chromosomes, from the genes, and dictate everything.
But it’s just not true.
Every gene has an on and off switch.
Think of genes as a whole series of switches that can be turned on or off.
And these switches are surrounded by still more switches, the epigenes.
The epigene switches turn genes on or off.
In chemical terms, these are methyl, ethyl, or acetyl bonds to the tissue surrounding the DNA.
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These are the on and off switches for each gene.
It’s so immensely complicated.
Let me put it this way.
Darwin believed that if a giraffe stretched its neck to reach leaves high up in the trees, its offspring would have a longer neck.
And then that giraffe offspring would have offspring with even longer necks.
The process would continue until a giraffe neck would grow really long — like the giraffes we know today.
Since the discovery of the gene, we laugh at this.
We think this is completely silly.
But in reality, latest findings are that this is exactly how nature works.
A giraffe stretching its neck longer and longer will, in fact, have offspring that have a longer neck.
Parent behavior resulted in traits being passed on.
It may be a lot more complicated than this.
But then again, it may not be.
What it boils down to is that modern genomics and genetics is wrong.
Your environment determines which genes are on and which are off.
And, the genes that are on or off can be passed on to offspring, even by the man.
So, let’s look into this further — it’s utterly and completely fascinating.
These are experiments with epigenetics that they cannot do with human beings.
But fortunately, they can do epigenetic analysis with animals.
In this case the used quail.
Why? Because quail mate for life… similar to how humans get married.
Or they have promiscuous or casual sex.
Or they engage in a mixture of both — also like humans.
Many animals do not have what is called “pair bonding” like humans do.
But some birds do, and quail do — so they use quail.
Researchers established an experiment where some of the quail were able to have casual sex.
Other quail pair-bonded with each other.
Then the lady quail laid their eggs.
The eggs hatched, and then researchers evaluated the behavior of the offspring.
Researchers were surprised that the “relationship” of the parent quail affected the children.
The offspring of pair-bonded, “married” couples were more secure.
Chicks of “married” parents presented a lower emotional reactivity, as they entered into a novel environment more quickly, and expressed less fear.
The chicks of “married” parents were more secure and better off all around.
The effects of their parents’ behavior affected the behavior and physical body of the chicks.
And there were marked differences between the behaviors of chicks of pair-bonded versus casual parents.
Even the appearance of the chicks from “married” couples was different.
The chicks from the pair-bonded couples were lighter in shade.
Many people will ask, maybe the differences has to do with sex hormones?
But it doesn’t.
Researchers measured all of the different sex hormones in the chicks.
And they did not find any real differences in the hormones between the two groups of chicks.
Even the father’s behavior affects the epigenetics of the offspring.
Males can have a direct impact on their offspring through their sperm, potentially impacted by their living conditions (i.e. an attachment to a female or not in our case) via epigenetic mechanisms.
This is the first study to show that the behavior of the offspring changes depending on the behavior of the parents.
I think it’s groundbreaking and incredibly important.
Does the same effect happen with human beings?
I don’t think that there is any doubt that it does.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/research/13genome.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Long-life partners or sex friends? Impact of parental pair bond on offspring personality
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/217/23/4184.full.pdf
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