Is it possible we have ancestors memories in our dna?

Question

just wondering.

Answer 1

Absolutely not. Memories are software and DNA is part of the hardware. If computers could mate and have babies they would have to upload their memory onto the child's (the child computer) hard drive; it wouldn't automatically be there.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have heard of an experiment where they took a mouse and put it through a maze. The second generation consistently did better at the same maze.

Also, I think DNA is far too complex to say anything for sure.

If you are highly traumatized, you can grow a white patch of hair. Saw it on discovery channel. Happened to a guy after he was ejected out of his jet. A patch of his hair is now white.

Possibly traumatic experiences are ingrained on our DNA... Not in the sense of a normal memory..

But in the sense of instincts.

Like maybe you have an instinctual fear of the dark because your ancestors were ambushed by wild animals in the dark and the experience ingrained "fear of the dark" on your DNA somewhere.

Answer 3

I doubt if anything so specific as an event would be transmitted, but I think that when we visit where our ancestors came from, we often feel a sense of belonging, of being in a place we are comfortable in, of knowing where things are located....

I think that sort of information could be transmitted in its general way.

Answer 4

hmm that makes you wonder but i believe dreams are visions of previous life and images of future events.  of course not all dreams but most.

Answer 5

I believe that it is possible. It may take some time (measured in 1000 of years)  until we can aces it, but at one point in the future we may evolve and aces this kind  of memory. I think that memory is not only stored in our brain axons (in the connection made by them) it is also in the cells. Body cell. Imagine you're self that the DNA replication is made by on a memory replication. It take a kind of memory to store the genetics information. I mean, it requires a kind of memory to know if my parents are black, or yellow or any kind of other color. I'll not explain the biological procces, but it involves a special kind of memory. I don't say that it is like our memory (i remeber the color of my car) ... but it is a mempry. To acces it? Not yet ... not yet ...

Answer 6

no. It would be cool, but no.

Answer 7

I don't know about ancestral memory but a number of peculiar, but serendipitous, events occurred when I was researching my ancestors. For instance, early on, over the course of a few days I had printed out thirty-odd "fichiers origine" for ancestors that I'd identified and, when sorting them, discovered four records that had somehow printed out in error. Three of the those four eventually proved to be ancestors (and the fourth is still a possibility). In researching the Salem Witch Trials, I discovered that, thirty years earlier, a Frenchman had been condemned to burn at the stake for witchcraft ... fortunately his life was spared (he was exiled, instead) because he proved to be an ancestor also. Coincidence?

Answer 8

no well i dont think we do

Answer 9

ahh that is why iam dreaming about sleeping with my grandma!?

Answer 10

Assassins creed =)

Beside inhereting the nose or the eyes or some other features we dont get anything else...

the brain is new.. and Actually from you 5 week untill your 3 months you create all you most vital brain wires from the righter to the left lobe and vica versa... Ready to SPUNG up all the new information !

Answer 11

DNA has nothing to do with memories. Those come from things you have been exposed to.

Answer 12

cool question!

this all depends on who you are asking, really...some think so, some don't...also some believe that you can retain memories from past lives...i believe that there is a possibility regarding both...i don't know for sure...they do have books on this sort of thing, though...probably in the new age section of your local bookstore...it would be an interesting read, i know that...i've flipped through a few, but never did buy one...i might just do that, though, because i've wondered the same thing a few times myself...

Answer 13

I think that most scientists now believe that most genetic memory and instinct is carried by the epi-genome. That is a coating, tightly wrapped around our DNA when it is passed to us from parents. The epi-genome turns on and off function of our DNA genetic code and is changeable by things that happen in our lives, where DNA is unchanged by experiences.

Answer 14

I believe we do. When we can not explain how it is that we know particulars without ever being in a particular place or generation of time this would explain our natural knowledge base of education.