| JAMES, VELOX & JAMES |
Behavioral Genomics Imagine for a moment that thoughts you have may be subtlety influenced by an experience not your own. That a process exists where a population evolves socially as well as physically and that this evolution of tested behaviors is transferred from generation to generation creating a cultural norm based on cues from the external environment. That this cultural norm provides through oral tradition and directed intuition patterns of behavior for hunting, building shelter, finding a mate and all manner of group and individual social interactions. And that this information is passed on from generation to generation insuring survivability by providing a stable behavioral platform from which the group or population depend, grow, multiply and continue. Now consider prolonged break in the flow of this generational information or cultural norm. What are the long and short term consequences? How might a group or population cope? Would they develop new coping mechanisms to deal directly with the change in environment? Could these new adaptive behaviors conflict with long established cultural norms and what forms could such conflicts take? |
| Genetic Science Learning Center (2010, March 14) Learn.Genetics™. Learn. Genetics. Retrieved from http://learn. genetics.utah.edu/ |
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| Dr. Ellsworth James and Dr. Genetics and Historical Trauma. |