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Environmental and Behavioral Influences on Gene Activity
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A substantial body of evidence is reviewed showing that external environmental influences on gene activation are normally occurring events in a large variety of organisms, including humans, thus extending the model of probabilistic epigenesis.Abstract:
The central dogma of molecular biology holds that “information” flows from the genes to the structure of the proteins that the genes bring about through the formula DNA → RNA → protein. In this view, a set of master genes activates the DNA necessary to produce the appropriate proteins that the organism needs during development. In contrast to this view, probabilistic epigenesis holds that necessarily there are signals from the internal and external environment that activate DNA to produce the appropriate proteins. To support this view, I review a substantial body of evidence showing that external environmental influences on gene activation are normally occurring events in a large variety of organisms, including humans. This demonstrates how genes and environments work together to produce functional organisms, thus extending the model of probabilistic epigenesis.read more
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The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
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Processes, Relations, and Relational‐Developmental‐Systems
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Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
TL;DR: The central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-residue transfer of sequential information and states that such information cannot be transferred from protein to either protein or nucleic acid.
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Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development
TL;DR: A new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors that are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way is described.
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The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments
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Individual Development and Evolution : The Genesis of Novel Behavior
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