Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
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Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
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Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#2Same story shared one day ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20190233
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#3> socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful determinant of human health and disease, and social inequality is a ubiquitous stressor for human populations globally
It is common to see why this could be a big problem for poor people as they have to worry about health, food, etc for day to day living while we take them as granted and can focus on other things like writing code, going to meetings, and the like without worrying about where the next meal is going to come from!
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#4Link to paper [PDF]: http://sci-hub.now.sh/go/10.1002/ajpa.23800
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#5Same story shared one day ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20190233
And 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590567
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#6>understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception
This 'understanding' has been known to be wrong for 30+ years now. Rearrangements, microchimerism, epigenetics, chromosome organization etc. are all things that exist and modulate information transfer beyond the standard four letters or the 'environment' (whatever people think it means) and we're still only scratching the surface. I keep saying it and I'll say it again: DNA is not source code, your genes are not initial character stats in a video game. That's not how any of this works and it frustrates me whenever I read otherwise smart people making arguments that rely on premises originating from a high schooler's (or 1970's) understanding of genetics. It's even worse when the dreaded 'nature/nuture' gets mentioned.
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#7> socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful determinant of human health and disease, and social inequality is a ubiquitous stressor for human populations globally It is common to see why this could be a big problem for poor people as they have to worry about health, food, etc for day to day living while we take them as granted and can focus on other things like writing code, going to meetings, and the like without wor…
My observations is that our society puts too much emphasis on having people prove they are self-reliant, instead of improving its population's productivity. In this dichotomy, the former is detrimental to the society, the latter would enhance it.
I think focusing on productivity would go further than the dichotomy's of "welfare or not", where people are mostly skeptical of whether a subsidized poor person is contributing to society with taxpayer's money.
Relegating the role of governance to productivity allows even prisoner rehabilitation to change. It allows jailable offenses to be viewed under the lens of whether this is useful to the productivity of society, instead of simply punishing someone.
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#8>understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception This 'understanding' has been known to be wrong for 30+ years now. Rearrangements, microchimerism, epigenetics, chromosome organization etc. are all things that exist and modulate information transfer beyond the standard four letters or the 'environment' (whatever people think it means) and we're still only scratching the surface.…
This understanding was still taught like that in the 90's, western continental Europe.
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#9>understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception This 'understanding' has been known to be wrong for 30+ years now. Rearrangements, microchimerism, epigenetics, chromosome organization etc. are all things that exist and modulate information transfer beyond the standard four letters or the 'environment' (whatever people think it means) and we're still only scratching the surface.…
This is new knowledge to me, where do I read about this?
Re: Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
#10>understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception This 'understanding' has been known to be wrong for 30+ years now. Rearrangements, microchimerism, epigenetics, chromosome organization etc. are all things that exist and modulate information transfer beyond the standard four letters or the 'environment' (whatever people think it means) and we're still only scratching the surface.…
This is new knowledge to me, where do I read about this?
Every biology, molecular biology, and genetics textbook made for freshmen and sophomore bio majors. You can't pick a wrong one - this has been core material for at least two decades.