"And that's a key point - "epigenetics" is most
often a process of environmental stress causing damage that results in
damaged offspring. No one has shown any epigenetics that made even
temporary "enhancements" in the offspring. "
Epigenetics is not "most often a process of stress causing damaged offspring." In fact stress in general has nothing to do with epigenetics most of the time. Without epigenetics there would be no life more complex than bacteria. It is every bit as vital as normal DNA and RNA to all higher life. We would not exist without epigenetics nor would our bees exist. Epigenetics can also persist across several generations in some cases. Examples of more than three generations are well documented.
Dick
" Any discovery made by the human mind can be explained in its essentials to the curious learner." Professor Benjamin Schumacher talking about teaching quantum mechanics to non scientists. "For every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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