MadSci Network: Evolution
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Subject: Could Learned Genetic Memory be possible?

Date: Sat Apr 22 12:29:25 2000
Posted by M Grandidge
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Preston State/Province: No state entered. Country: uk
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 956424565.Ev
Message:

The children of racing drivers often become racing drivers. (Damon Hill, 
Jaques villneuve? etc.)
The children of t.v. presenters become t.v. presenters. (Zoe Ball, Paula 
Yates in the u.k. etc)

The same is true of many professions.
I think there is more to this than meets the eye.

I think there is some mechanism whereby the skills learnt by a parent are 
geneticaly passed onto their children. 

This would make evolutionary sense as animals with this ability would have 
an advantage over those without it.

This could be the reason humans are so much more advanced than other 
animals in terms of language, inteligence and skills.

I am not sure how this happens, perhaps in the parents egg/sperm or some 
chemical process which passes on brain patterns or ???????????????

I think it is more than just following the family tradition.
Do you think this could be possible?             



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