Why is heredity not just in our genes?
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Heredity as we have never told you by Etienne Danchin © Humensciences
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
Heredity as we have never told you!
What is transmitted from one generation to the next, ensuring the sustainability and such diversity of living things?
Why is heredity not just in our genes?
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Let's question heredity, asking ourselves why and how much do children resemble their parents? What is passed from one generation to the next? To ensure both the evolution and the sustainability of life, but also and above all its incredible diversity? So, to the question why cats don't make dogs, could we also ask why each living being is unique and different from those that came before it? And how this individual and collective evolution, far from being written only in our genes, is also largely linked to our environment and our cultural habits ...
With
Étienne Danchin
, CNRS emeritus research director at the Laboratory of Evolution and Biological Diversity (UMR-5174) at Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse.
He is a specialist in behavioral evolution and non-genetic inheritance.
He works, in particular, on cultural heredity and epigenetics.
Heredity as we have never told you has
just appeared in Humensciences.
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