RE: Nature via Nurture: What makes you who you are.

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 22:56:21 MDT

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    Brett Paatsch wrote,
    >
    > Harvey Newstrom writes:
    >
    > > Brett Paatsch wrote,
    > > > http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030602/story.html
    > > >
    > > > "Only now is it dawning on scientists .... that learning itself
    > > > consists of nothing more than switching genes on and off "
    > > > ......
    > >
    > > Meaning what?
    >
    > Which statements struck you as particularly off the wall?

    That main quote that "learning itself consists of nothing more than
    switching genes on and off...." To claim that memorized information
    switches one's genes off and on is misleading. 

    --
Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP
<www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>

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