Genetic memory, and whiskey sour neat
Genetic memory. Weird stuff innit? It's that sudden falling feeling you get at the edge of sleep, or the one squirrel who knows how to navigate under your ford explorer whilst you zip along on your way to your child's soccer game. Genetic memory is all the more intriguing when you consider that only those traits that lend themselves to SURVIVAL are passed on (or are they?). The common thought on the subject is: "That Funky falling feeling is only experienced by those whose progenitors survived a fall of some sort, be it out of a tree, off a cliff, or off a bar-stool." This is the common feeling on the subject, because those whose genetic parentage did not have these experiences, did not pass along the genetic triggers and indeed, the physical MEMORY of the events. It also goes without saying, that those who did not survive these events, did not live to pass along their x's and y's if you get my drift. This is more contemporarily demonstrated by the fact that you see less and less dead squirrels on the road. The learning curve, like much of evolution, is one of generations, and genetic traits, not one of instant mutation. It's not that squirrels are getting smarted here folks, they won't be issuing a Nobel prize acceptance speech anytime soon, but they are adapting to their (our) environment through change. The Squirrels that don't know the dangers of Ford Bronco's and Mitsubishi Montero's (and indeed even Volkswagen Cabriolets) are getting removed from the gene pool... one... by one... by one... While those who have a basic understanding of human traffic, and the mortal dangers of rotating radial road rash... are living to pass along their genetic smarts to their offspring. We have a number of options in deciding how this is possible: we can either grant the cute and fuzzy wittle squirrels a certain amount of anthropomorphic credit, and assume that mommy and daddy squirrels take their little ones aside and school them in the dangers of the road, (much as our mommies and daddies do) or we can make the logical leap that this info is passed down genetically and hard-wired into their peanut sized brain-pans. That being said, imagine for a moment, the amount of memory hardwiring that could be possible in our (slightly, though not much relatively) larger cerebral cortex? Suddenly, hand-me downs such as mannerisms, postures, and kooky things like having the same annoying laugh and or attitudes as your forebear becomes possible. Odd innit? Well, let's raise a whiskey sour, (NEAT) to all the squirrels and humans who didn't learn in time how to avoid traffic, and or precipices. I think I got my love for sour mix from my father...Conversations
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