DISQUS

Think Gene: Origins of the brain

  • John C · 1 year ago
    Now this saga continues on and along the lines that what could currently be a disorder could (gasp!) be a new normal somewhare down the evolutionary trail:
    "The New Genetics of Mental Illness", Scientific American Mind, June/July 2008, p40.

    Also while you are wading through this article, learn all about the new phrase: "epigenetics" which takes enviromental factors and could cause translation into proteins to go differently than it should. And, WHOO!, it effects offspring!

    Right next to this article is "Unmasking Memory Genes" on p49.

    Keep an eye out as to what is happening in Canadian universities, especially McGill in Montreal: Lots of reeel interesting stuff happening.

    (Then of casual interest is an article about how we may well be various shades of bisexual; it ain't all "black and white": "Bisexual Species", p68. I was suspecting this for a long time.)