More on Epigenitics and Intelligence.

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Back in the 1950's a team of scientists selectively inbred rats over seven generations that were much better and finding their way out of mazes to produce very intelligent rats. They also did the same to rats that were less able to find their way out of mazes to produce very stupid rats. They then got the pups of these rats and brought them up in three different environments. One was uninteresting, one was normal, and the other was challenging and exciting.

But when the pups grew up they could believe the results. All the rats that grew that up in the uninteresting environment were maze dull with no significant difference between those what were once maze dull and maze bright. And all the rats that grew up in the exciting environment were maze bright with no statistical difference between what were once the maze dull and maze bright. But in the normal environment adult maze bright and maze dull rats behaved as predicted. They didn't know it at the time, but what they had done was selectively inbred the epigenetic program and the genes were unimportant; there was no real significant genetic difference between maze bright rats and maze dull rats in any way, except the programs they inherited were. These programs can be passed down through generations but they can be changed at any time (with much determination and hard work, admittedly).

So don't feel doomed to a life of misery, but believe that you can change and get better. You can find the love and peace you know you deserve.

From Wikipedia:

A classic example of gene–environment interaction is Tryon's artificial selection experiment on maze-running ability in rats.[2][3] Tryon produced a remarkable difference in maze running ability in two selected lines after seven generations of selecting "bright" and "dull" lines by breeding the best and worst maze running rats with others of similar abilities. The difference between these lines was clearly genetic since offspring of the two lines, raised under identical typical lab conditions, performed too differently. This difference disappeared in a single generation, if those rats were raised in an enriched environment with more objects to explore and more social interaction.[4] This result shows that maze running ability is the product of a gene-by-environment interaction; the genetic effect is only seen under some environmental conditions.

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