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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes Sharon Moalem MD, PhD
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

May 18, 2011 - Bottom line: While each of us inherits our own unique, hardwired, unchangeable version of the genetic code, epigenetic factors such as lifestyle and diet can radically change what our genes do. But it's unclear whether these manipulations would work in humans. Because natural selection cannot influence traits that show up after we have passed on our genes, we never evolved a "stop switch" for development, Walker says. May 27, 2010 - In fact, Moses was unusually old for his time (120 years) because, when he reflected on the brevity of life, he said: “The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away” ( Psalm 90:10 ). The precipitous plunge in life spans after the Flood suggests that something changed at the time of the Flood, or shortly thereafter, that was responsible for this decline. Jan 15, 2014 - The small hunting groups of our ancestors were the precursors of today's complex states, their stone tools replaced with the smart phones in our pockets. Does the evolution of our genes also impact cultural changes? And yet, Wade He contends, reasonably enough, that this genetic change sprung from the advantage it conferred millennia ago on the offspring of cattle herders who occupied northern Europe. €� But whether or not these genes are expressed, and blossom into disease, may be determined by how you live your life, how you eat, the toxins you're exposed to, the supplements you take, your beliefs and how you handle stress. May 20, 2014 - Some researchers have slowed ageing and extended life in mice, flies and worms by tweaking certain genetic pathways. So we keep adding bricks to the house. Dig led by His new book, “A Troublesome Inheritance,” approaches the subject with a particular, if parochial, grievance: New scientific understanding of our genetic inheritance is increasing our understanding of differences among humans. May 30, 2014 - Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy.