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The Potential of Parental Genetic Alteration
There's a belief that people can change the biology of their kids through changing their own biology, however the idea is still controversial and not fully understood as psychologists, many psychologists believe that there's heritable trauma, while population geneticists are less convinced. There are different ways to experiment parental genetic alterations but the focus now is separating nature from the mother in order to control and separate the environment from the inheritance or the environment of the father.
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The concept of selecting for traits related to vigor in reproduction is not fully understood and varies in beliefs among psychologists and population geneticists.
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Summary
The concept of selecting for traits related to vigor in reproduction is not fully understood and varies in beliefs among psychologists and population geneticists. While it may give meaning to one's life to change their biology through their kids, it's uncertain to what extent it truly happens.