Genetic Memory

Well have you ever wondered why or how birds or animals know how to fly. Where to migrate to, How to have Sexual intercourse etc.


Well i have come to the theory of Genetic Memory.

In a a few short sentences i will try and explain.

Within the DNA of anything there is a certain part which contains little bits of memory from its predesesors and itself.

When A bird is in the procces of being developed its some of the Memory in the DNA is given to it. That way it knows where to migrate it knows all the things it needs to live. And learn the rest from others.

If you didn't quite understand my thinking or think i am just being a total retard Please post.

 

I believe this is a valid point. As a deer is born it walks straight after. whether it is genetic memory or just common sense im not sure... It doesnt make them smarter than human babies it just means they have muscles which are more fully developed.

However in the case of birds things are a bit different, birds stay in the nest while their parents feed them for a while whats to say they dont pick it up from their parents watching them come too and from the nest... SOME dont fly straight away and subsequently die which leads me to believe they do NOT know how to fly straight away but rather it is something that is learnt...

Things such as migration on the other hand i dont know.... For all we know different areas may have scents and such that humans dont pick up on... For all we know birds might just know to fly towards the sunset until they smell a certain scent...

I am not saying that Genetic memory isnt a plausible reason i am just trying too get some other points of view across

 

Well, you're on the right track, but it's generally known as "instinct".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct

 

I know about instinct but im meaning diffirently or maybe im just being an idiot as usual.

 

Well, how would memories (certain connections between certain brain cells) imprint themselves onto your DNA?

 

I'm prettysure it's instinct and I think say for a bird to fly it's in the dna of every bird to fly, same with say a deer to walk.
But I guess we will never know.
If it was dna though could we implant some of a birds dna into us then fly lol.

 

hmm, its memory vs. instinct really, if youre falling wave youre arms?

 

Yeah, Some things are just normal reactions though. Kinda like instinct but more like common sense. Like sick slip said, if your falling wave your arms or try to catch yourself. Also some of it is instinct, with the migration and sexual aspect of things. But yes your thinking on the right track like shredderbeam said just giving it to much credit I think.

 

humans are born with some instinct to very little though.

 

You beat me to it.

 

the answer is technically none since the brain develops seperatly from the rest of the nervous system.

 

How can we ever know, Not much research has been done. About the development of a Animal

 

I wouldn't use a wiki to save your life, easily corrupted information...

Anyway back on topic, would if there is no instinct and just genetic memory.

 

If there is such a thing as genetic memory, than why must ALL birds, learn how to fly, they simply aren't born and then go shooting out of the tree now do they?

You can't imprint your memory into your DNA, it is in most simplest terms, impossible.

As to the one who said if we put some of a bird's DNA in us we could fly. No, go back to basic physics and you can see, even if we knew HOW to fly, we couldn't physically fly unaided anywhere.

 

You could be on to something. However it would be quite difficult to prove..

 

To save my life, of course not, but I'd use it to save yours.
Anyhow, this is just answering a post, not saving lives. And wikipedia pretty much just combines several sources, all of which are created by similar persons and are ultimately no less susceptible to corruption than a regular encyclopedia.

Anyhow, there may be something in the genetic design that may allow for increased chances for certain behaviors/instincts, but I don't think it has anything to do with memory.

 

No hes right, I swear i saw in a documentry that humans can infact pull wings out of their arses!

 

I don't think birds are a good example, Did the first humans automatically know how to reproduce, that can not be classified as instinct I think, the first humans had no guide and did not watch other do it I assume, so how did the first humans learn how to reproduce?

Also they say that newborn babies will come out swimming if you give birth underwater. Did the baby just learn to swim then and there, Nobody taught them. Not saying that I agree with this but I see where he is coming from.

 

True birds arent a very good example, Lets just use ourselves as the example.

 

The first humans would've learned the same way the previous 100s of species learned along their process of evolution. And the same way dogs and other species do today. So I do think you can classify that as instinct... all dogs I know have the instinct to hump things [legs ftw]. It just so happens that they'll get lucky and hump another dog... and if they're really lucky, the dog will be of the opposite sex.

lol, Since when is flailing arms considered swimming? Because every person I've met had to learn how to swim when they were older... and many still don't know how yet.