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Animals can inherit traumatic experiences, study shows
- anigbrowl 13y agoThis is pretty mind-boggling stuff. Also, an impressively well-written science article for a daily newspaper.
- aneeshm 13y agoIf this turns out to be true for human beings (and I can't think of a reason, a priori, why it shouldn't be), then it has massive implications for both practical ethics as well as more abstract ideas of morality. If what you do to someone affects not just him, but also all his descendants up to N generations....