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To: donh
If it's a trait, it's passed on to your offspring. The question worth asking is, how strongly?

What a laugh - there is absolutely ZERO evidence that traits, as in moral values, can be passed on to offspring -that would require genetic information, of which there is not even an inkling of evidence for. What a non-rational leap that is!

1,145 posted on 04/30/2003 1:10:44 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
What a laugh - there is absolutely ZERO evidence that traits, as in moral values, can be passed on to offspring

ALL traits are passed on to offspring. Tiger offspring have pretty much all the traits of tigers, and relatatively few of the traits of Octopi, for example.

-that would require genetic information, of which there is not even an inkling of evidence for. What a non-rational leap that is!

That is not correct. Emotional responses arise from a handful of enzymes that are produced by genes which we have a middling decent map of, presently. What we lack is completely detailed knowledge as to the triggering sequences and the nature of the physical and chemical couplings that bring them to fruition in response to external stimuli. But, that's true of all genetic information, to some degree.


1,189 posted on 04/30/2003 11:25:52 PM PDT by donh
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