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Scientists prove that fears and memories can be inherited via sperm

2013-12-04 17:53:21| Extremetech

While scientists have documented numerous cases where the children of parents who experienced significant trauma in life have in fact inherited specific predispositions, direct experimental evidence for this phenomenon, and a plausible mechanism, has until now, been lacking. Reporting in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have now shown that mice can inherit the acquired fears of their fathers through some mysterious reprogramming of -- his sperm.

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