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by Evbn 4983 days ago
Sure there is: chemical exposure balance or random variation in the uterine or infant environment.

Fetal alcohol syndrome reliably retards kids, and it isn't genetically inherited. Hypothetically, maybe something like adderall works in utero with lifelong effects.

Also, hypothesis formation should be motivated by data, or else you are wasting time searching through an exponential space with 0 probability of finding a correct one.