Plants grow differently in different gravity, and the brains of kittens develop differently when deprived of vision. So, what about those pesky humans?
Here’s an article from Scientific American about differences in the brains of those who lose their hearing or sight at an early age.
The second and last: plants in space
Was put out by the Australian Academy of Science in 2016, and last for more than an hour and a half. It includes three speakers. The first speaks about growing plants in controlled environments, including space and commercial applications. The second speaker tells us about different lighting requirements for controlled environment plant growth, and the advantages of using LED style lighting. The last speaker tells us about when actual plants were grown in actual space, on the ISS–International Space Station.
What you are and what happens to you interact in complex ways.
In order to make you, and I mean you specifically, we need your DNA, every last thing that has happened to you, and all your cells that have come and gone during all that time.
That study was about kittens with one eye closed, and mostly about searching for the critical period of sight development. An earlier paper by the same authors studied the difference in the brains of cats reared with one eye, verses two eyes kept shut.
And I’ll end with a quote from the study on kittens.
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In considering the possible implications of studies like the present one for human development it is important to stress that in the cat, within the critical period between the fourth and eighth weeks, a deprivation as brief as a few days can have marked effects. This implies that for normal development normal environmental conditions must prevail throughout the critical period and not just during some small part of it.
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