Cdoug96
Corporal
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2016
- Location
- Michigan, United States
I found a study online that comes to the conclusion that the suffering of POWs held in Confederate POW Camps (and presumably Union Camps also) like Andersonville can be passed on to sons, and perhaps other descendants through the paternal line of descent so long as they are conceived after the fact. Apparently it increases the likelihood of early death in them by 11%. This happens through epigenetics. Here is the scientific paper.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1803630115
And a more popsci one
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-evidence-intergenerational-transmission-trauma-ex-pows.amp
Makes me wonder what else we have inherited.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1803630115
And a more popsci one
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-evidence-intergenerational-transmission-trauma-ex-pows.amp
Makes me wonder what else we have inherited.