Epigenetics

Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

Headlines suggest that the genetic marks of trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. But the evidence, at least in humans, is circumstantial at best.

The New York Times

Inherited Trauma Shapes Your Health

A new study on Civil War prisoners adds to the evidence suggesting that our parents’ — and even grandparents’ — experiences might affect our DNA.

The Atlantic

Epigenetics and Evolution

An interview with Michael Skinner, founder and director of the Washington State University and University of Idaho Center for Reproductive Biology.

Your Own Health And Fitness, KPFA

Beyond Epigenetics

A pair of evolutionary biologists takes a closer look at nongenetic inheritance.

Science

Can a Parent’s Life Experience Change the Genes a Child Inherits?

Inside the controversial world of epigenetics research.

The Atlantic

Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan

In 1973, a toxic chemical was mixed into tons of farm feed, sickening livestock and exposing millions of Michiganders. Should later generations worry?

Undark

Scientists, Theologians Ponder If Latest Biological Findings Are More Compatible With Religion

Exciting progress in biology in recent decades may be building up a third new phase in the scientific explanation of life, according to thinkers gathered at a University of Oxford conference.

Religion News Service

Finding the Actions That Alter Evolution

The biologist Marcus Feldman creates mathematical models that reveal how cultural traditions can affect the evolution of a species.

Quanta Magazine

Shifting the Genetic Paradigm with Epigenetics

Michael Skinner hopes his research will lead to medical tests that could determine which environmental factors our ancestors might have been exposed to.

AAAS