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The genes themselves do not change, their attributes are fixed from conception. What changes is the way they operate. The article compares it to an "on-off switch."
There is obviously a relationship between the physical self and the psychological self. What we have not understood is the mechanism through which one affects the other. This article suggests that researchers are close to solving that riddle.

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  BronxBomber1 year, 6 months ago
  
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  With lab rats? Personally, I don't see the feasibility in it.
  
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    1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    Labs rats, BronxBombers--it's really just six of one and a half-dozen of the other.
    
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      BronxBomber1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      No, I'd say it's more like 12 altogether...
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