- A lot of information gets stored in genetic code. Traumatic events or drastic changes in environment get passed down generation. - A famine in Netherlands has proven to be etched in the genetic code of many of the Dutch. --- History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome - Siddhartha Mukherjee in [[The Gene]] The Hongerwinter had etched itself into national memory, but it had penetrated genetic memory as well. - Siddhartha Mukherjee in [[The Gene]]