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Silurio1 t1_iy5f5sa wrote

Reply to comment by Xw5838 in How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA. Researchers have found that the cells of people who were conceived during the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1939 and, at its height, saw about 25% of the US workforce unemployed, show signs of accelerated ageing. by MistWeaver80

>After a long enough period of time epigenetic changes get transferred to the genetic code of an organism, so it does change.

Sauce? What would be the mechanism?

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