Two young girls adopted by a loving British couple took after their criminal biological mother. For the adoptive parents, it was a disaster.
Read When Cherry adopted these ‘angelic’ sisters she thought a loving home would heal the wounds of their troubled past. how terrifyingly wrong she was, on DailyMail.co.uk.
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NOBODY DOUBTS that dogs and horses etc are bred for disposition (& skills) that they INHERIT. Think golden retrievers vs. pit bulls.
We are animals and we also inherit our disposition and skills.
Those psychologist that don’t believe this are idiots . . . and yes, they inherited their idiocy!
Sarah999, LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Inherited Idiocy??? LMAO!
G1S,
Yes, genetics can skip a few generations. When I was a child the family joke was that I was the spitting image of my mom in looks (and the genetics lector who was a colleague of my mom’s wanted to use us as an example; my paternal grandmother mistakenly thought a child pic of my mom was a pic of me), but the temperamental image of my dad. As I grrew up this became nuanced. I actually have several features of my father in my face and frame (but only for the real investigating eye). More, my mother at some point concluded that I was very much alike to my maternal grandfather when it comes to dreaminess, idealism, chaos, etc… (inherited his creativity too… he was an architect, and I’ve been going to art school since I was 5 and got a master in industrial design) She only realized how much I resembled my grandfather when it comes to functioning, coping and talents when I was past my mid 20s.
That reminds me of two things.
My paternal grandfather died two years before I was born. My father would often tell me how much I would have liked him because we were so much alike in personality.
In the other case, I was at a good friend’s house one day and looking at some antique photos of her family that she had put on her walls. There was one that was from the 1880s or so. I said, “Boy, there’s no doubt about (your brother) being part of this family.”
When she wondered what I meant, I pointed to a man in the group. “He looks like (your brother) got dressed up for a period picture.”
She was amazed. Then she told me that they had often kidded her brother about not being a member of the family at all because he didn’t look like anyone that they could think of.
Her brother was a clone of the man in the photo.
I kept the female cattle from my original stock as I increased the size of my herd, and though they were all the same breed and my original stock all were half sisters, and of course each generation were half sisters as well (all of each generation having the same father) so these animals were closely bred, (with them being 3/4ths siblings to each other rather than just half sibs) Yet, I could tell by looking which “family” they came from from the original stock by looking at their faces.
In addition, I could also do so by how they behaved. I had one cow that her calves were always kickers, except her last calf, which I still have as a 10 year old cow who is very gentle and isn’t a kicker. The mother and even her sisters got culled from the herd. She was an “iffy”until she proved she was not a kicker.
You can take a calf that is “born wild” and tame it down some, I’ve seen it done, but it is very difficult. You can MORE EASILY take a calf that is born calm, and make it wild as a March Hare by abusing it. I think that with people too, you can tame down a difficult one by using the right tactics, and you can take a tame one and make it into a killer if you abuse it enough but I do think that there are general tendencies on how we are born just like there are with cattle, breeds of dogs, and horses. Any dog breeder can tell you which breed of dog is more likely to bite, and any cattle raiser can tell you which breeds of cattle are more calm than others—–and that’s why the bull fighters breed a distinct and dangerous breed of bull to put in the bull ring, rather than use some bull out of a farmer’s pasture.
Genetics has some influence on our personalities, but it is NOT everything, environment has some influence too.
Yep, Oxy ~
I find it somewhat amazing that we can see this so clearly in animal breeding and raising, yet, we find it so hard to believe in the human animal.
I often think of the famous bull from the bull riding circuit – “EVIL DOER”, about sums it up.
I know pit bull owners who love their dogs and repeatedly call them gentle. They get upset over people assuming pit bulls are vicious. They insist that they are trained to become that way by their owners.
We had a Siberian husky who died a few years ago. Yesterday, my son sent me a photo of a Siberian husky puppy that he saw in a pet shop. We spoke later on the phone. He was close to tears over remembering our husky and how much we both miss him.
We love that breed. I don’t know if we got a particular gentle dog, which was a male, but I’ve seen it said everywhere that huskies do not make good watch dogs. They think everybody loves them as much they love humans.
Oxy, I agree… environment is a large part of our personality and life makes for identity… and yet life is also about getting rid of the cultural and environmental stuff to get back to our identity chore, which is genetic.
Yep, a doctor told me years ago that we actually get our genes from our grandparents and not our parents hence the skipping a generation. I believe it…look around and notice how many people look like a grandmother or grandfather…interesting.
We get the genes from our parents who got it from our grandparents… but some of the genes are dominated and thus not visible, and yet they can still be passed on. In combination with other genes, these passed on, previously dominated genes suddenly aren’t dominated anymore and can become apparent.