Monday, August 16, 2010

How much information is transfered to your offspring from your life experiences?

Are scientists working on any studies to prove that information from your life experiences is being transfered to your offspring. I don't know a whole lot about evolution and adaption to the environment. One example might be the climate. If all my ancestors are Eskimo and we all move to Mexico and only breed with other Eskimos will the information on the temperatures of the surroundings be transfered to the offspring every time of conception or will it skip generations. What type of science studies this? or is it to complicated for scientists today to study that information. Another example might be the time taking place before conception. If I have a control group family for a thousand years and they keep having children at an older and older age how much information will pass to the offspring to allow for the parents to conceive at a later age. If a family becomes typists on computers for thousands of years, how will information be transfered for adaption to typing on computers?How much information is transfered to your offspring from your life experiences?
No information is passed on like that. The information that a child learns is taken in from the surroundings. You're talking about evolution and Genetics. Evolutionary changes are random, sometimes they're for better sometimes for worse, just because todays society types on computers doesn't mean that our kids are going to be better adapted to do it. People learn what is showed to them, our parents learnings get taught to us, they are not genetically imprinted into our brains.How much information is transfered to your offspring from your life experiences?
if it is an acquired trait it can't be passed on, but if a genetic mutation happens that helps the offspring survive better and not die that genetic mutation can be passed along to the offspring.

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