Enco,

I can’t remember the title of book that described the anxiety of pregnant hiding from Nazis while pregnant and how all the kids were mental. But the imagery it created in my mind sure has sticky fingas.

There is no shortage of trauma in humans that would make ideal subjects to study this topic.

In other news every frickin time i zap…[Read more]

Jake:

The study in The Guardian article only had 32 Jewish men and womenwho were held in Nazi concentration camps, had suffered or witnessed tortured, or who had to hide during World War II.

The premise of the study is worth exploring. but was an incredibly small sample. You are correct that it would help to study other people who have suffered…[Read more]

Enco,

Yea interesting vid on Lamarck.

I don’t know if anything got passed on to me epigenetically. Two generations removed from Germans murdering my family. Plus i am a half breed.

I could not find it on a quick search but i read about pregnant Jewish women somewhere in Eastern Europe who hid and later gave birth. All of the offspring had…[Read more]

Jake:

Fantastic, enlightening video and book on Lamarck! I learned even more about him from this video.

I didn’t know Lamarck was the first weatherman! Napoleon really screwed himself and his troops by dissing Lamarck. If Lamarck’s weather correspondence had extended to Russia, maybe Napoleon’s men wouldn’t have had to eat their own horses…[Read more]

Jake:

I DuckDuck-ed up the words “Epigenetics” and “Dutch Famine 1944” and “Holocaust victims.”. I think I now see where you get your attachment to the idea.

I also watched some short videos on the subject and am in the middle of a Neil DeGrasse Tyson video on the subject of Epigenetic Trauma.

Without meaning to drag up any pain you may have,…[Read more]