The Effect of Behavior on Genetic Destiny

Your behavior can and does dictate your genetic destiny. Experiments looking at trauma in young mice, for example, when a mouse experiences trauma and grows up to be an adult, it becomes skittish. And what they found was that even if male mouse, you know, grew up to father, children and had no exposure to the father during their lives, but they all behaved in that same skittish manner. It was as if the father somehow told his offspring, you're going to be born into a world where it's going to be dangerous and traumatic. I suggest that you essentially be careful and change your behavior.

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