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by Robert_S » Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:30 pm
I can't remember which lecture it was, but he was talking about these two rat populations.
They had been bread, one set selected for being laid back, the other for being skittish. But one skeptical woman didn't believe there was a genetic component to the skittishness. In one experiment, she took the unborn rats, right after they had been born and swapped them between mothers. It turns out that they still had the traits they inherited from their genetic family.
In another experiment, the little buggers were switched shortly after they had been conceived. The rats of skittish parents were placed in the wombs of laid back mothers and vice versa. The rats had the same traits as the mother they spent time in the womb of. Pre nurns out that pre-nnatal environment plays a larger role in inherited traits than previously thought.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
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