Our Fears May Be Shaped by Ancestral Trauma
Source: mysteriousuniverse.org
Last December, an unsettling Nature Neuroscience study found that mice who were taught to associate the smell of cherry blossoms with pain produced offspring who feared the smell of cherry blossoms, even if they had never been exposed to it before. We knew that the process was epigenetic—that it was not hard-wired in the permanent genetic structure of the mouse—but we didn’t know exactly how it worked.
Earlier this week, a followup Nature Neuroscience study more clearly traced this sort of inherited trauma with RNA interference, and specifically with microRNA found in the sperm of mice. This trippy (and slightly disturbing) computer-animated video explains how RNA interference works, and the way microRNA fits into that process:
The more recent study also found that the multigenerational trauma carried on to at least the third generation. The implications of this are legion. Every fear, phobia, or aversion we have could potentially tap into a diluted form of the same sort of epigenetic trauma, passed down from parent to child across generations.
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Read the full article at: mysteriousuniverse.org
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