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originally posted by: DEANORULES24
a reply to: kcgads
Its just a theory I have, We still have a lot to learn about junk DNA.
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: kcgads
Sperm is not created just once and that's it. One would presume once the change occurs sperm created after the change would include the alteration.
originally posted by: kcgads
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: kcgads
Sperm is not created just once and that's it. One would presume once the change occurs sperm created after the change would include the alteration.
Sure, but how? How does a fear of smell change the DNA in sperm? This wouldn't be random mutation. This would be lamarckian . A change based directly from the environment.
originally posted by: gosseyn
originally posted by: kcgads
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: kcgads
Sperm is not created just once and that's it. One would presume once the change occurs sperm created after the change would include the alteration.
Sure, but how? How does a fear of smell change the DNA in sperm? This wouldn't be random mutation. This would be lamarckian . A change based directly from the environment.
Have you ever heard of Epigenetics ?
originally posted by: kcgads
a reply to: Barcs
I agree. Don't they have laws against cruelty to animals?
originally posted by: kcgads
a reply to: Barcs
I agree. Don't they have laws against cruelty to animals?
originally posted by: sepermeru
Well, I've been raising and breeding my own pet "fancy" mice for years, so I asked them, and they said it's actually that the chemical scent used triggers hereditary ESP. But it's hard to know when a talking mouse is telling the truth.
The only way this could work is through selective breeding. Perhaps a scared doe is more inclined to mate with a buck as scared as she is, and so they have scared offspring. Does can be quite picky about mates based on environment--that's part of why Mus Musculus is arguably the world's most adaptive mammal. Or maybe the data are flawed, which is my bet.