[randolph]

Originally Posted by johndowe

Hi there.

Genetic memory...

There is the mental and there is the physical, the mental is harder to pin down since we can and do change our minds, but physical, there is a definate link.

If a woman wears high heels on a regular basis before she gets pregnant with a daughter, her daughter will have a greater ease in wearring high heels than a daughter of a woman who rarely or ever wore high heels, the same is true for most other physical traits, what the parents can do (on a regular basis) the offspring usually can too, within reason of course, small changes like the high heel example are common, more pronounced and noticable ones are called mutations.

No, i don't mean like X-Men, but they would be very big mutations, bigger than any mutation ever recorded.

JohnDowe.

This sounds like Lamarck and Lysenko beliefs in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. No scientific research supports this idea.