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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by kbelder on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:59PM (#31830519)
>"Intriguingly, the male offspring of the shocked mice demonstrated a similar fear of cherry blossoms—as well as epigenetic changes in their brain and sperm—without being exposed to the shock. These effects were passed down for two generations. In other words, the lesson the grandfather mouse learned, that the cherry blossom scent means danger, was transmitted to its son and grandson."

It's going to take multiple teams replicating that before I even start to believe that claim.

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