Re: Redefining eternity

Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2024-12-12, Hank Rogers wrote:
 

dsi1 wrote:

 

It's a physical change on a genetic level.
How strange is that? My guess is

 

You're talking out of yoose ass again, Uncle.

 Hank, he is trying to explain 'epigenetics' in a
'dumbed-down' manner, but went way too skimpy
on the technical details.
 It is not really accurate though. Epigenetics explains,
for example, the difference between a grasshopper and
a locust, which look like different animals despite
having identical DNA.
 Feral pigs are more an example of devolution via
out-breeding. It's like the 'wild' pansies and
snapdragons on my front lawn that come up every
year with smaller and smaller blossums.
 

I've seen that in some tomatillo plants that apparently escaped from my garden many years ago. For quite a few years, they popped up everywhere, with their fruits becoming smaller and smaller each year. Eventually they died out on their own. I was glad to be finally rid of them.