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Never mind that this was a classic case of working backward along the causational chain, and that maybe Hitler was not the only possible destiny of German history and culture.

Further, Meaney's groundbreaking causational research in epigenetics is especially evident in his 2004 paper on GR expression as it is cited over 700 times by other authors.

Further, this research-unlike previous research-established a causational relationship between maternal care and behaviroal epigenetic programing with cross fostering of pups by various mothers of differing maternal behaviors.

Indeed, correlation is used when inferring causation; the important point is that such inferences are made after correlations are confirmed to be real and all causational relationship are systematically explored using large enough data sets.