“People say, when something cataclysmic happens to them, ‘I’m not the same person. I’ve been changed. I am not the same person that I was.’ And we have to start asking ourselves, ‘Well, what do they mean by that? Of course, they’re the same person. They have the same DNA, don’t they?’ They do. And what I think it means is that the environmental influence has been so overwhelming that it has forced a major constitutional change, an enduring transformation. And epigenetics gives us the language and the science to be able to start unpacking that.”
