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Maybe inherited, maybe a mutation unique to herself.



Your response seems to miss the difference between the terms inherited and heritable (because it could be heritable without being inherited), but your point is valid: whatever she has may be cognitive, biological, or otherwise, and may or may not have heritable aspects.


A cognitive repair mechanism for RNA. That's novel. Intracellular functions are defined by gene expression, I don't think meditation or yoga is going to do it although I suppose suppression of stress hormones might influence cell function.

Put it this way: it's more likely cognitive than knitting and toothpicks.


The science is starting to stack up in favor:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6134740/


Proclivity to mutation is .. sometimes heritable. That's the BRCA gene, no? In the case of RNA repair, If it's not 50/50, there'd be an advantage in repairable RNA.




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