BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting
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Transgenerational Instincts
The idea of transgenerational instincts is that if you have a person who learns certain things in their lifetime, then the information somehow goes across from their brain into their sperm or egg producing cells. That would be a kind of lamarcian evolution. I don't think it's tenable for for that to work, even though some very interesting ideas have been tforward by people like jean robinson. A, because evolution is primarily conservative. Once you find the right structure, you don't change it randomly with every generation. But there's an in tween type situation between lamarkin evolution and a very conservative darwinian evolution,. based on the baldwin effect which was put
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