Can we change a genetically determined future?

We can change the future.

Most parents, given the chance, would do everything in their power to guarantee their children a healthy and secure future. Indeed, parents have a moral obligation to identify harms that threaten their children, and to prevent them, or at least reduce their risk, as best they can. This is so self-evident that any parents arguing to the contrary are likely to find themselves on the receiving end...

We Can Build the Future

A genetically determined condition?

Papadatos, C., Alexiou, D., Nicolopoulos, D., Mikropoulos, H., and Hadzigeorgiou, E. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 927. Congenital hypoplasia of depressor anguli oris muscle: a genetically determined condition? The frequency of hypoplasia of the depressor anguli oris muscle was 37 cases among 4 530 consecutive births (8 -2 %). Diagnosis was based on clinical and electromyographi...

Evidences that genetically determined melipona queens can become workers.

IHERING (1903) suggested that caste determination in Melipona (Hymenoptera Apidae) was not phenotypic but was possibly determined by some mechanism before the egg was laid. On the basis of observations by many authors, we can say that in all genera of social Apidae, except Melipona, caste determination is controlled by quantity or quality of food or both. KERR (1946) found in four colonies of M...

Can We "Future-Proof" Consensus Trees?

Consensus methods are widely used for combining phylogenetic trees into a single estimate of the evolutionary tree for a group of species. As more taxa are added, the new source trees may begin to tell a different evolutionary story when restricted to the original set of taxa. However, if the new trees, restricted to the original set of taxa, were to agree exactly with the earlier trees, then w...