Mouse Pups can Inherit Learned Sensitivity of a Smell

History provides examples of generations traumatized by war and starvation, whose children experience altered physiology, trauma can scar people so indelibly that their children are affected. Now researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found an instance of animals passing on more specific information about a traumatic experience to their offspring. That information comes not through social communication, but through inheritance. ...