--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote: <snip> > Re digital introspection - I wonder how long it takes for such > brain changes to be established to the point they could be > passed on to offspring.
Basically forever, if you're talking about genetic transmission. That would be called "inheritance of acquired characteristics," and the notion--popularized by Lamarck in the early 19th century--was ultimately thoroughly discredited. Cultural transmission, of course, is a very different story.
