ROBERT: Because there is more data, more information about the people of verkalix, going farther back into the past than you can find almost anywhere else on Earth. This assignment is from the free science education website Science Prof Online(ScienceProfOnline.com). And all over the political spectrum, from Hollywood lefties to social conservatives. If you start smoking when you're 10, 11 something like that, you end up having children with more problems. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: I think that's where Lamarck's ideas can be woven in and make some sense. Here's what Olov says he found in the data. She said, "Thank you so much for the gift, I bought my son an excavator truck, remote control and some summer outfits." The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. Then World War One came and that disrupted everything. There were four girls and Barbara and Destiny told me that a few years ago they found three of them and they all either were in college or had finished college. SMITTY HARRIS: He was just You know, most babies are kinda peaceful, he was never really peaceful. It's off-limits. SAM KEAN: No, they did not have them on land. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? JAD: You know, inside these cells, in the center, coiled up in little spools, is the DNA. Is that too old?" ], Like you said, when you were in your addiction like she is], I didn't say I'm God. Thats like, I mean, that seems like a thing that would be frightening. Who are they? Yeah. So were getting close to the moment of truth, because there it is. This was a really radical place at the time because you have to remember that people studying animals up till now, they were basically studying preserved specimens, and so on. [WILL: Hi, this is Will, calling from Northumberland, England. Kinda makes me claustrophobic. PAT: Right away, people accused her of targeting women at their weakest moment and enabling their drug abuse. Females seem to hate laying eggs in the water, but is that the end of the story? It would be wrong to think that they represent all women who use drugs while they're pregnant. SECTION I - Story 1 (Lamark, Krammerer & the Midwife Toads) 1. I mean, they didn't have porridge. These women don't just have one and two babies. We'll just get one more.". CARL ZIMMER: Is your wife going to hear this? A little village? _. Radiolab is on YouTube! JAD: And looking at these swings in fortune, Olov realized what he had here was JAD: Because with all this data, he and his team could follow families forward in time, through the generations. Truth is, we dont know precisely how this happens but somehow the experience of starvation marks the DNA. I'm graduating in December. I mean, when you think of Kammerer, there was a report in science outlining a theory about how Kammerer's toads got these characteristics that invoked these epigenetic inheritance and imprinted genes and it made it plausible. But a few of us make a habit of it. We had an expression here, "Dig where you stand." They could eat twice, three times as much. So, in the end, where do you come down on this? JAD: Now the Sweden story from our last segment left us both feeling a little strange. What can't you? I just got custody of my eight-year-old son. You've got these toads who hate water. JAD: Do you have any theories for how this tongue is tickling the DNA, or whatever it's doing? Yeah. JAD: Just to be sure, we asked Frances Champagne what she thinks of this data. SAM KEAN: He extended this idea to people. There's going to be this massacre of toads and only a few lucky ones are going to survive. That, in a sort of ass backward way was Michael's question. SAM KEAN: And so, they just had to hold on for the entire winter. You know, the fact is that taking care of animals, trying to keep them alive in a building is not an easy thing, especially if it's 1903. You know, you've got all these chemicals around. We need to oblige the constraints of WNYC copyright arrangements and apologise for any inconveniences caused. [ARCHIVAL Clip, Panel: Well, I mean, Hitler thought that if you were Jewish, that you had given up the right to be a mother and hed sterilize people as well. You're eight, sorry. ROBERT: And youre saying that part of the DNA is covered up? ROBERT: By all accounts a pretty good-looking guy. This whole toad thing, to the Darwinian faction, it didn't scan really. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Your boys will first grow taller and taller for the next few years, and when they get to be about 9, 10 years old, they're going to stop growing just for a few years. And when she had a baby. That tongue is doing something to the DNA. In this episode, originally aired in 2012, we put nature and nurture on a collision course and discover how outside forces can find a way inside us, and chan JAD: And I know I cant change those genes. Just to be sure, we asked Frances Champagne what she thinks of this data. What happens when moms lick their pups is that the pup beccomes aroused. That doesn't matter. I just didnt think. And I've got say, I'm feeling pretty good about this show so far. Never mind, you're stuck with small boobies." JAD: Look, in the end, what do I know? She got one. Your grade will be based on how complete and correct your answers are. How much of you will echo into the future and how much of you won't? Birth mother's name was actually the same as me, so, Barbara. She's somewhere, but it's not good from what we've heard. JAD: His big idea, as you might know, is that what a person does in their lifetime could be directly passed to their kids. PAT: Isaiah's in college and Taylor and Brandon, I met them at Barbara's house and they seemed to be fine. She's 20 months old. We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our programming as we can over time. We'll just be honest. CARL ZIMMER: He was mighty skeptical. And so, her name is Kalia. Move on to the next cage yes, no? Its just That's just how I've always looked at it. So moms licking activates serotonin, and it's released onto brain cells in the hippocampus. You're finishing college, right? I could have turned out like some of the other kids. MICHAEL MEANEY: Mom's licking activates serotonin. Kinda makes me claustrophobic. We talked to her for a little while and PAT: At a certain point the social worker pulls out a stack of papers. The bit of DNA that will give this baby when it grows up the instincts to be nice to its baby, and lick that baby. Radiolab is an outstanding radio show broadcast out of New York City on WNYC. I wouldn't want to put it up to chance, because what kind of life is that? Full disclosure, she's Robert's sister's partner. I mean, for one thing, Barbara's white and Destiny's black. So they can grab onto the female and hold tight while they're mating. Four or five steps later, we are in JAD: So almost instantaneously, the mother's tongue has reached into the baby's brain cells. You mean, if you had a starving grandfather, you would be a healthier boy for the because you had a starving grandfather? And then that baby would stretch and stretch, and it would give a little more stretching to its baby. JAD: In any case, what they saw at the end of all this counting wasWell, first of all, what they saw was this pattern that rat pups who got licked a lot as babies, when they grew up, they licked their babies a lot and the rat pups who didn't get licked a lot, when they grew up, they didn't lick their babies. I don't know where she gets that from. Could you just tell us what you are doing now? And Barbara and Destiny walked me out to my car. JAD: So he's got to live his life as a toad with all this baggage on him? ROBERT: But the story he told us begins around 25 years ago. The cheapest estimate is the work that needs to be done in 14 days. LATIF: Still, still standing. And so, you could only see one nuptial pad, and it all comes down to thisand all of that was just about to fall apart. And they had more. ROBERT: But luckily for the Vivarium and for our story, they had a guy. ROBERT: Interestingly, the church has also kept track of the farmers' SAM KEAN: How much they were growing each year. JAD: And these things are called, apparently, methyl groups. JAD: Actually, the idea itself is pretty old. Right away, people accused her of targeting women at their weakest moment and enabling their drug abuse. My name is Jean Kean. And he would basically turn the heat way, way up in these aquariums until they had to go underwater. Because the truth is, you have no idea how these kids are going to turn out. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. SAM KEAN: And at a time when you're not making the best decisions anyway. Isaiah would sleep and he would scream. JAD: In any case, these books tell you when each of these folks died, how they died. You're now hearing Lamarck's name invoked these days because there are things beyond genes that we pass down to our children. JAD: And very often, one of them will just go crashing into the DNA and it'll stick there like a barnacle or a glob of peanut butter. That's a lot of people. Anyways, God bless you. And he was going through withdrawal. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: There's a normal distribution, right? I don't like to upset people. The event that really sets this story in motion, the set of events, happened a few months after Barbara had brought Destiny home. By all accounts a pretty good-looking guy. But if you've got a mom who licks you. PAT: So Barbara and her son got in the car and drove across town to the foster home where Destiny had been living for the past eight months. Is that too old?" Not only that. The sperm carries these marks to the next generation. PAT: If Barbara had gotten to Destiny's birth mom, Destiny, Kalia, this moment, none of it would exist. PAT: The way she saw it, the state, the federal government, somebody BARBARA HARRIS: Should say, "You're not doing this. SAM KEAN: Because it would reflect badly on the Soviet state. Yes. Just sing. And Destiny was in the other room, sleeping or something, I'm not sure. That's the headline for his talk, and then CARL ZIMMER: Right below the headlines says, "Scientist's great discovery which may change us all.". CARL ZIMMER: But but theres like some hope here because JAD: Okay, all right, this is interesting. They suddenly had to get by on a tiny fraction of the food that they were used to. PAT: But at that point just two of the six boys were living at home, Brian and Rodney. He stuffed himself silly; 9, 10, 11 years old, so he's a happy grandpa, you the grandson, you then would have. Radiolab: Inheritance - Mastering Rhetoric Radiolab: Inheritance Posted on February 26, 2013 by wlin4 So I listened to Radiolab's story on "Inheritance" which talks about genetics. There was a newspaper called The Daily Express and they have these headlines that come out. JAD: And thats wrong [laughs].Thats not how it works. If you've already had a kid, you can be sterilized. I mean, youre just youre saying a lot of things that are really impressive. They like to hang out in the water and the females like to lay eggs in the water. Lots of money. 10 Controversial And Thought-Provoking 'Radiolab' Episodes. She was thinking Can I offer these women money to use birth control? ROBERT: A few years later, there'd be a harsh winter. From pneumonia. Destiny has, what, three brothers and sisters that also were raised with her? That's the stuff that makes you you. That doesn't matter. [2] JAD: And what about the four kids that weren't raised with Barbara? She should be with me. So that's fun. Yeah. Visit our website. Have you ever had someone call or write you and say that they regret their decision? [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Who, together, pledged more than $150,000 to her program.]. SAM KEAN: It was this struggle for a few years. The event that really sets this story in motion, the set of events, happened a few months after Barbara had brought Destiny home. SAM KEAN: And these effects, in fact, were so strong that you could trace it to the grandfather. That's it. CARL ZIMMER: But there were a lot of skeptics. It means what if grandpa has a bad day? I ended up finding myself really conflicted about it. Assuming that you can survive the ordeal, and you grow up, and you have kids of your own, the data seems to say that your kids will benefit from your suffering. Watching this, I couldn't help but think that Destiny's very existence is probably the most interesting argument against what Barbara is doing. Where we sought, they will find. Serotonin gets into the brain cells, and according to Michael unleashes A whole series of molecular events inside the cell. by Nolan Moore. Well, this is it! Remind me this. And Barbara is not offering that. CARL ZIMMER: And when it came time to mate, the males and the females, they would mate in the water. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? Peanut butter, there we go. One parent stretching isnt going to do anything, see thats the bummer of Darwinian evolution. [laughs] Can you say, "Never, ever?" And as soon as she got there to pick him up, she could tell that something was wrong. When you first hear about this, what goes through your mind? And since Kammerer kept the heat up, toads basically had to stay there, in this watery place that they had not evolved for. And she says, one day, this idea just came to her. You're eight, sorry. You can imagine these toads are like, "Dammit, fine. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? But according to Kammerer, here's what happened when he heated up the toads little cage. She said, "Thank you so much for the gift, I bought my son an excavator truck, remote control and some summer outfits." CARL ZIMMER: She carries your kids for nine months and you're like, "That poor male toad.". Higher frequencies of heart attacks. So the great rat nightmare comes true where the females become their mothers. What exactly happens between 9 to 12 that makes this big difference? Sincerely, Jennifer.". It was this struggle for a few years. Meaning that they had less incidence of heart disease? I have to be creative.". Because we had already had to upgrade from a car to a van, from a condo to a home. Are you nine? He actually coined the word biology, too. It was something they acquired during their lifetime. The fact that you're motivated by a really beautiful, important value, that we want healthy kids, doesn't mean the mechanism you're using is going to end up helping those kids. When Kammerer published his results initially, a bunch of scientists immediately began to say "Wait a minute, hold on here, it would be nice if life was like that but life isn't like that. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. And if you were eating a whole lot between 9 and 12, one-quarter. PEJK MALINOVSKI: Here we have how much they harvested. SAM KEAN: This is what's called the slow growth period. PAT: A year later, she gets another call. JAD: But wouldnt it be nice if thats how it worked? I don't know where she gets that from. Listen Jan 20, 2023 I said, "No, no, that's okay." Is it a big town? ROBERT: [laughs] "This may hurt you my son, but I'm doing it for my grandchildren.". OLOV BYGREN: They didn't have grains. Where we began, they will accomplish. Yeah, thats it. Sat her on my lap, with her little dress on and her little curly hair. She's 20 months old. At once and we're watching 40 litters at a time. Yeah, there you go. JAD: Theyd basically starve. The results are obvious to you. PAT: And Barbara found herself returning to a thought she'd kind of always had. I had a little basketball for her. Barbara Harris says she's convinced more than a dozen women], Have accepted her offer to be sterilized in return for money.]. PAT: Barbara has this drawer in her desk. In those books you can read everything about the citizens of verkalix, going back hundreds of years. BARBARA HARRIS: Aw, you blew him a kiss? PAT: But were getting ahead of ourselves here. Like, I mean, as far as positives can go, I think I hit the jackpot. [laughs[ Exactly. Riksarkivet. JAD: What can't you? You're not leaving this hospital unless you have long-term birth control.". Since birth. Well, this is it! That, in a sort of ass backward way was Michael's question. Instead of dying at 40, I'd live to 70? CARL ZIMMER: They'd spend more time in the water. You just haven't evolved for this and there's no way you can, at least not quickly. JAD: Plus, you know, Lamarck didn't get all the biological details right. MICHAEL MEANEY: That activates maternal behavior. I tell you what I'm going to do though. ", PAT: In other words, "Could I pay women who have drug problems to stop having babies?". That was it. [ARCHIVAL Clip, Panel: You don't think that they should have their children back?]. We all know this, that there are cycles of abuse or whatever. Well, I guess I was thinking we could just start at the beginning. MICHAEL MEANEY: I was an undergraduate student. Maybe more. I just got custody of my eight-year-old son. ROBERT: That's interesting. There was a newspaper called The Daily Express and they have these headlines that come out. We spay them. If you start smoking when you're 10, 11 something like that, you end up having children with more problems. And he said, "Barbara, I'm not buying a school bus." Okay, so lets get going and stick with your boy, Lamarck, just for a sec. Jean Baptiste Lamarck was a pioneer in the . MICHAEL MEANEY: Yep, Im a professor in the faculty of medicine at McGill University in Montreal. PAT: Barbara says they've reached out to her many times but they never heard back. JAD: You can imagine these toads are like, "Dammit, fine. ROBERT: And they didn't have these on land? PAT: The moment I really felt like, "Whoa," was when we started talking about PAT: The little baby that we keep hearing in the background of everything. LULU: A really good radiolab about this called Inheritance. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. So he actually went to Vienna. Enhancing public understanding of science and technology Yeah, we're exploring questions of lwhat can you pass down to your kids and their kids? [ARCHIVAL CLIP, Jad Abumrad: Do you see the owl?]. I mean, youre just youre saying a lot of things that are really impressive. He'd fall asleep and just wake up screaming. If you're a starving boy between 9 to 12 years old, now it doesn't matter a whole lot what happens to you after this, your grandchildren will have one-quarter the risk of heart disease. In pictures, he has that, you know, that crazy Einstein fuzzy hair thing. But according to Kammerer, shortly after these toads got into the water, they did begin to evolve fast. Really slowly, gradually, achingly slowly. JAD: Or did I somehow learn that? I didn't see them as people. Well, the DNA, the RNA, micro-RNAs, histone. So then over the next 70 some odd years, Lamarck basically became the poster boy for, like, the big dumb idea, the idea that you want to believe in but that you know isn't true. Like, "How did this happen? ROBERT: Well, lets not get too excited too fast because we have a story to tell and this tale leaves me a little queasy. You don't think that they should have their children back?]. PAT: Yeah. CARL ZIMMER: Kammerer puts on a suit and he walks off into the mountains SAM KEAN: Outside Vienna on a Rocky mountain trail. Even though Destiny's mom was doing all sorts of drugs during her pregnancy and the doctors told Barbara that Destiny was going to be mentally and physically delayed Not feeling the way I'm supposed to feel. And as of 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday, when were recording this, we have not broken the show. ROBERT: I wonder. The lady knew why we were there. SAM KEAN: And when he examined it, he noticed that there was a syringe hole there. Whole lifetime of stretching. It's only the mechanisms are not so clear. He'd fall asleep and just wake up screaming. I'm Executive Director and Founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. LULU: Oh actually, real thing, before we go, Latif. 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