Quote Originally Posted by sagefisher View Post
Not wanting to post an idea on a far more serious post, I decided to post my thought here.

"A single generation of domestication heritably alters the expression of hundreds of genes".

....How long has mankind been domesticated? How many of our genes have been altered?
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This article really piqued my interest. I thought genetic changes took thousands of years to affect a population.

Can anyone explain what is meant by "expression of genes"? Is that different from changing the genes themselves?

Curious