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Haunted by history: how the sufferings of one generation are passed on to the next

33 mins | May 4, 2018

We inherit the legacy of our ancestors: their wealth, facial features and their hard knocks and traumas. Pam Weintraub, writing in Aeon magazine, traces her painful family history and concludes that war, famine and persecution can inflict changes that last generations.