Please take me back to the real world. I don’t like this fever dream anymore

I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.

Why not?

The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian

I reacted mostly to this part:

it doesn’t work like “this organism learned something, and **that** knowledge or instinct gets passed down”. It tends to be more like, this organism’s body was under some specific pressure, or lived in some specific environment for an extended period, and the resulting effect is mostly unrelated and mostly unpredictable.

Where it seemed like you meant specific “learned” traits in one generation are not passed down to offspring, which is contradictory to what is commonly believed by experts. In some occasions it works like you described, but not always. I’m not an expert on epigenetics or even genetics though. And like I mentioned, a lot is still unknown, so we can’t say anything with so much certainty.

Those are just the examples we have found in humans, but epigenetics is certainly studied as a way organisms pass specific traits on to their offspring, for example:

Epigenetic inheritance has emerged as a new research discipline that aims to study the mechanisms underlying the transmission of acquired traits across generations.[1]

That’s why it was a joke, but we still don’t know everything about epigenetics, so in theory it could be possible.

It was a joke, but releasing mosquitoes that can bypass deet into the wild? They might procreate and pass that information on and create a race of superbugs, although I doubt that will happen.

Let’s hope these bugs don’t escape from the lab

The jokc

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Yov

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Do any of these “famous” preachers?

I don’t know who this guy is but I remember that Kenneth Copeland guy looked and behaved more like the antichrist than a devout Christian with all his scamming people out of donations for his third private jet thing.

And it’s nothing new either. Genesis already made a song about it in the 80s I think.

Are you sure he is not a baby cow though? When I hear him speak all I hear is the exact same whiny mooing sound a calf makes.