| Do you ever wonder why we yawn when we are | | | | that life-changing experience be useful in developing |
| sleepy? | | | | survival knowledge and possibly encoded in genes |
| Why do we crave for food, as we are hungry? Why | | | | and passed on to you? |
| do we feel insecure and scared when we are in total | | | | Traits information processed genetic or ancestoral |
| darkness? | | | | memory that slowly becomes our earliest memories |
| These behaviors are not unusual, as it may seem. But | | | | in handling certain survival skills or knowledge. This is |
| we didn't think this simple human instinct has been | | | | not déjà vu involved here. |
| passed on generations from our great ancestors | | | | Recent discoveries about the idea also may affect us |
| when they started to roam the earth. How can it be | | | | much more than we can imagine. It has been long |
| passed on? | | | | said that our appearance is determined by |
| In biology, memory is present if the state of a | | | | combination of our parents' genes. Through research |
| biological system depends on its past history in | | | | studies, certain disorders are directly linked to our |
| addition to present conditions. If this memory is | | | | genetic history. In addition, our aptitudes, musical and |
| recorded in the genetic material and stably inherited | | | | athletic ability, even our emotional traits are |
| through cell division (mitosis or meiosis), it is genetic. | | | | significantly affected by our genetic roots. |
| This genetic memory is inherited in our DNA by | | | | DNA builds everything concerning every living |
| survival means. | | | | creature, including memory. Some memories may just |
| Why? DNA is the only storage medium involved in | | | | be built in. Not many think of instincts as memory. |
| the transfer of information to the next generation. | | | | But how does a newborn deer know how to run |
| There is a saying about survival of the fittest. It's | | | | from a wolf? Or is it consciousness playing a role |
| true, where human evolution apparently prepared our | | | | here? Or is it genetics? Although there still not |
| species to become possibly the best and clever living | | | | enough concrete proof to link genetic memory to our |
| being able to adapt to different challenges and | | | | common sense and other abilities, the question is |
| environments. For example, deep into your memory | | | | whether you choose to believe or not. Probably, DNA |
| banks, your great-great-great grandfather had been | | | | testing technology will bring us deeper solution of the |
| attacked by shark five hundred years ago. Or he | | | | world of genetics. |
| witnessed a shark attack and he had a phobia. Would | | | | |