How would the concept of epigenetics change the discussion? Or does it?
my words - epigenetics is the way that the environmental factors affect gene expression.... your grandparents environment affects your gene expression??? (my words, but this may be an overstatement)
Is it less offensive/dangerous a concept if I were to speculate that african americans average IQ expression if you will could have been affected by their ancestors living in bondage for generations.... and that in general west African peoples have been exploited going back perhaps 800 years or much longer (depending on your definitions and outlook of history).
^ I think even that kind of thinking has dangerous implications but shouldn't be censored.
Speculating on epigenetics you can start to see a compounding, exponential possibility. I don't know enough to push that possibility, just throwing it out there. I'm not a geneticist or exceptionally well informed on the subject of epigenetics, nature vs nuture, etc. I enjoy speculative genetics themed sci-fi and stayed in a holiday inn last night
. I think overall genetics, DNA, intelligence.... these are all still relatively young fields and we're speculating on data that will be replaced soon with better data. I think that's a fair statement.