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Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell

December 2, 2013 by

A surprising example of apparent inheritance of an experience: Researchers found that when a mouse is trained to become afraid of a certain odor, his or her pups will be more sensitive to that odor, even though the pups have never encountered it.

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