Michael Skinner on Epigenetics: Stage Three Alert

On the topic of epigenetics, which I've written about extensively for many years, I was interested to read Washington State University biologist Michael Skinner's recent article for Aeon. Skinner's piece reminds us of the old maxim that truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. If we can slightly modify these three stages as follows, then we have the history of how evolution has struggled oppose the scie...