Thanks, Grandpa!

If you are like every person that has ever considered the questions of psychology, you have thought about where your specific traits come from. The standard answer is: genetics does its part and the environment takes over. But there is strong evidence to show that both elements play a role just not in the relatively simplistic form that we have grown to believe.

What if you inherited a trait from your great-great-grandmother but is was not simply a trait but a mutation that arose due to a rotten childhood or a significant trauma, generations before you were even conceived. This is now thought to be the case with many aspects of who we are.

DNA never forgets.

Article from Discover Magazine