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The Evolution of Soft Inheritance
The idea that we're storing genetic information passed on from our ancestors could be expressed is complicated. We think it's an evolutionary adaptation that allows in times of stress or famine to just switch the genes on or off and take you on a different path. It makes some sort of sense, but it just lasts for a couple of generations and then fizzles out. And there are lots of stories about after the war, Dutch hunger famines, whole populations having these stresses,. which for several generations had effect on their mental health due to these changing genes.