If you've already had a kid, you can be sterilized. 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. [chuckles]. Who, together, pledged more than $150,000 to her program.]. JAD: One parent stretching isnt going to do anything, see thats the bummer of Darwinian evolution. BARBARA HARRIS: Yes, she has the same name as me. But this was a really, really tough place to grow up. In this magazine article, Barbara even said, quote, "We don't allow dogs to breed. Your support helps Radiolab continue to provoke, delight, and keep audiences curious. And when she had a baby. [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Barbara Harris's solution is simpler than anything else out there. But I take it that we have more control over our destinies and our kids' destinies than we would've thought. It's a small forest area, very beautiful. To fellow named Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck. OLOV BYGREN: Well It's one-fourth, we can we say. They began to grow these all puffy things on their hands. [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Harris says her program, children requiring a caring community, or CRACK], [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Can prevent thousands of unwanted births to drug-addicted women. PAT: So by now it's 1994, and Barbara is thinking PAT: You know? Sincerely, Jennifer.". [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. Please welcome Barbara.]. LYNN PALTROW: 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. Honestly, I think it never seemed like she was anything but my real mom, if that makes sense. ], Sterilized? You can do this. Remind me this. JAD: If the genes are the bottom floor, then this layer on top is sometimes called the epigenome and that thing can change based on your experiences. JAD: And then, Michael just launched into this thing. And those lucky ones, according to Darwin's theory, they would have had to have been born with some random mutation in their genes That gave them an advantage in this situation. As Barbara made the rounds on the daytime talk shows, the reaction was split right down the middle. Professional authors can write an essay in 3 hours, if there is a certain volume, but it must be borne in mind that with such a service the price will be the highest. I know! SAM KEAN: Because it would reflect badly on the Soviet state. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. SAM KEAN: And at a time when you're not making the best decisions anyway. 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. Just a little. [1] Radiolab was founded by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich in 2002. ROBERT: Okay. He actually named his daughter Lacerta, which is a genus of lizard. ROBERT: Cause we were talking to science writer, Carl Zimmer, and he told us that back in the early 1900s, this tension between Lamarck and Darwin got extra tense. Listen Jan 27, 2023 Birthstory A sperm, an egg, two wombs, four countries, and money. CARL ZIMMER: And when it came time to mate, the males and the females, they would mate in the water. OLOV BYGREN: Something happens on the molecular level. Big questions are. 01:04:34 - Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. The results make it probable that our descendants will learn more quickly what we know well, will execute more easily what we have accomplished with great effort, will be able to withstand what injured us almost to the point of death. You dont really say it to yourself that way, but yeah. Isaiah would sleep and he would scream. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: This is real physical-chemical interaction between what's going on in the environment and what's going on with the DNA. ROBERT: One-fourth? And I packed up my stuff, it's pretty much done. So that was just funny to me. All the babies I had seen and all the people that have called me to tell me about their babies that were damaged. If your grandpa didn't starve, instead he lived through great times. 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 Destiny says she doesn't really care DESTINY HARRIS: I got these genes from somewhere, but I kind of feel like she was a surrogate, like she carried me for my real mom. That's the stuff that makes you you. OLOV BYGREN: A lot of diagnoses actually. That, in a sort of ass backward way was Michael's question. Okay, so lets get going and stick with your boy, Lamarck, just for a sec. PAT: I ended up finding myself really conflicted about it. 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 change not just our hearts and minds, but the basic biological blueprint that we pass on to future generations.Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. ROBERT: Inheritance, what you can move on to the next generation and what you can't. I know! As he's doing his rounds, he stops by the midwife toad terrarium, he looks down at that little male toad with grapes stuck to his legs and he wonders, "How adaptable is that little guy?" Truth is, we dont know precisely how this happens but somehow the experience of starvation marks the DNA. JAD: I know! Did that scare you at all? by Nolan Moore. And um BARBARA HARRIS: I had asked for a newborn, so when the social worker called me, she said, "I have this cute little baby girl for you but she's eight months old. [ARCHIVAL CLIP, Jad Abumrad: Do you see the owl?]. Saying the mother had given birth to a baby girl, did we want her? Here, Kammerer's was saying, "You can do this even on a physical level.". I'm not saying that these women are dogs but they're not acting any more responsible than a dog in heat. He hit the lecture circuit and he hit it big. Kick off certain hormonal systems. And they had more. Where we began, they will accomplish. ROBERT: You wonder, where did that come from? Michael was in school and he got interested in a very, very basic question about how things get passed down? I'm graduating in December. SAM KEAN: Except he had one. That is a bad way to start a kid's life but that's just the beginning of the kid's life. This is real physical-chemical interaction between what's going on in the environment and what's going on with the DNA. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: You know, you've got all these chemicals around. After I've gotten to know so many of the women. ], I'm going to go out into the streets and offer addicted women money to use birth control. And eventually, over the millenia, what youd get, is a creature with a very long neck. [laughs]. If you have a starving daddy, it turns out that the baby actually gets some sort of health benefit. 10 Controversial And Thought-Provoking 'Radiolab' Episodes. By all accounts a pretty good-looking guy. ROBERT: Rewrite their their blueprint? As to diabetes, it was a four-fold risk. Like, mine are bigger, you know." Look, in the end, what do I know? You can't change your DNA. And he says, "This isn't a nuptial pad, it looks darkened but that's just ink.". Theyd basically starve. PAT: When you first hear about this, what goes through your mind? Wait, when you say they can choose to be sterilized, you mean permanent? I said, "This will be the last one. 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, mine are bigger, you know." Three of them ended up in other foster homes and seem to have done pretty well, but one of them DESTINY HARRIS: Okay, well of them, don't really know what happened to her. Then World War One came and that disrupted everything. When Kammerer published his results initially, a bunch of scientists immediately began to say CARL ZIMMER: "Wait a minute, hold on here, it would be nice if life was like that but life isn't like that. He thought that you could kind of engineer societies by changing the environment. JAD: You got your good parents and your bad parents. And um PAT: Doctors would later explain to Barbara that Destiny's mom had been addicted to drugs while she was pregnant. That was it. ], [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: To any drug-addicted woman who will agree to have no more babies. ROBERT: According to Darwin, life and changes are ruled by chance. MICHAEL MEANEY: That's it. Birth mother's name was actually the same as me, so, Barbara. JAD: And thats wrong [laughs].Thats not how it works. LULU: And were trying to think about how do we keep it the same in a lot of ways, but also how do we let it grow into something beyond what it was originally built to be. I think the Swedish data are really, really strong, and very reliable. I don't think that puts me in the same category as Hitler. ROBERT: And then the next one after that. ROBERT: But luckily for the Vivarium and for our story, they had a guy. ROBERT: Okay, so lets get going and stick with your boy, Lamarck, just for a sec. I have to be creative.". I think all parents do this, is that you slip into this Lamarckian delusion that What you do with your kids can somehow rewrite all of that. 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. Anyhow, so you got this guy, Paul Kammerer, who's good with animals. JAD: I mean, were not gonna do that ourselves. PAT: Lynn has become one of Barbara's fiercest critics. And The other day someone was whistling and I was like, "Stop it", and it just hit me, I was like, "Oh God, I was him", it's never appeared until now. And I was a waitress, I worked for IHOP for over 30 years. So some scientists began to ask Kammerer if they could look at his toads. And so, they bring MICHAEL MEANEY: A lot of friends to the party. I mean, yes, I might get a great family, but I might not. So here's what you're going to notice. Its gonna get messy. So he actually went to Vienna. SAM KEAN: This is what's called the slow growth period. LULU: Yeah, thats it. Females seem to hate laying eggs in the water, but is that the end of the story? Yeah. Its something I still think about all the time. Not only that. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Why? So he's got to live his life as a toad with all this baggage on him? More brain cells? JAD: These were kids that didn't end up with Barbara? Or is it? PAT: Last I heard she was living on the streets in LA. She should be with me. JAD: When rats have more of this protein, they will act more motherly. Okay, all right, this is interesting. And I didn't find a single case of someone saying that they regretted what they've done. SAM KEAN: It does, it does make kind of a folk sense. SAM KEAN: Really slowly, gradually, achingly slowly. SAM KEAN: Well, he thought it might have been an assistant trying to frame him because he was Jewish. He said, "If you were a boy, and you starve between the ages of 9 and 12, and then you went on to become a father, then a grandfather, your grandkids". Go to him. Radiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 187 episodes Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. And if you were eating a whole lot between 9 and 12, one-quarter. Which I find kind of hard to believe but, then again, I must have read at least 100 news articles as I was reporting this story. But it failed. By Recode Staff Updated Oct 25, 2017, 12:01am. JAD: The sneaky idea here is that the blacksmiths, the giraffes, they made it happen. Yes. When Emil gets to be eight, I'm cutting him off. We inherited this beloved show that we first fell in love with as listeners. Knock it right off the DNA. And, you know, there was kind of antisemitism growing at this time, so he thought that someone had framed him, and six weeks after Nobel published his results in Nature, Kammerer sent a letter to Moscow. A few years later, there'd be a harsh winter. Including a particular amphibian that plays a very big part in this story. KARIN BORGKVIST LJUNG: Jans Olaf, Hanna Kaiser, Heinrik Venvei. ROBERT: And this idea won him a lot of fans, including, not surprisingly, the Soviets. 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. Yes, no, okay, move on to the next cage, yes, no? In any case, these books tell you when each of these folks died, how they died. I'm almost done. According to Darwin, life and changes are ruled by chance. 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. JAD: I want to start with a parental day dream for a second. SAM KEAN: I should add too. BARBARA HARRIS: I already knew that if I ever got a little girl, I was going to name her Destiny. But what exactly Maybe you can explain this to me, Robert. And when I found out the bill didn't pass, I just thought, "I have to come up with something else. Because he couldn't hold formula down. You have to do that for five hours a day for six consecutive days. Yeah, the social worker called and told me the mother had given birth. Four or five steps later, we are in JAD: So almost instantaneously, the mother's tongue has reached into the baby's brain cells. And as soon as she got there to pick him up, she could tell that something was wrong. Jean Baptiste Lamarck was a pioneer in the . Frankly, this makes being 9, 10, 11, 12 like a rather crucial. If you start smoking when you're 10, 11 something like that, you end up having children with more problems. And even though they look basically nothing alike. ], You get them $200 each, which they can spend on crack. Whole lifetime of stretching. I wouldn't want to put it up to chance, because what kind of life is that? And I packed up my stuff, it's pretty much done. It's such a surprising result. When Emil gets to be eight, I'm cutting him off. I guess retard. ], [ARCHIVAL Clip, Panel: What's the worst thing you have been called by one of your critics? So yeah, she keeps me busy. Yeah, it was a very attractive theory to them in Moscow. Tell me what your image of a drug-using pregnant woman is. That's how I've always looked at it. I just saw them as child abusers. ROBERT: That's Sam Kean again. Okay, and then I just had to accept it. I don't think that puts me in the same category as Hitler. The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. The results are obvious to you. And when methyl groups stick to that part of the DNA, the maternal instinct is effectively turned off. And he said, "Barbara, I'm not buying a school bus." Maybe more. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Methyl groups are pretty sticky, they're hard to get off. ], [ARCHIVAL Clip, Panel: Sterilized? Here's what Olov says he found in the data. I mean, youre just youre saying a lot of things that are really impressive. Never mind, you're stuck with small boobies." So then the one that's in trouble, so thats one of, So I guess you could say to yourself, "Seven out of eight of these kids did all right?". I mean, youre just youre saying a lot of things that are really impressive. Olov told us, take heart disease. ], [ARCHIVAL CLIP, BARBARA HARRIS: That's their choice, but the babies don't have a choice.]. JAD: And I know fate is gonna give them a couple random mutations in those genes. That's how we ended up with four of them. We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our programming as we can over time. JAD: So its like grandpa's struggle is jumping forward and giving me a leg up? That the licking is changing the baby's DNA? I had a little basketball for her. ROBERT: Well, lets not get too excited too fast because we have a story to tell and this tale leaves me a little queasy. 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. That was it. Wow. We'll just get one more.". Barbara Harris's solution is simpler than anything else out there. JAD: In any case, these books tell you when each of these folks died, how they died. The cheapest estimate is the work that needs to be done in 14 days. I have to be creative.". So imagine the DNA in that brain cell. ROBERT: Kammerer, for one, was sent off to work as a sensor for the Austrian military. And the incredible thing is, those marks stick around. CARL ZIMMER: He's not just talking about toads anymore, he's gone way beyond toads. At once and we're watching 40 litters at a time. I'm Carl Zimmer's daughter. ROBERT: So what is the licking doing then? He thought that because theyre swinging hammers all day, they got big bulky muscles, and then theyd pass the muscles to their children. But a year later, the social worker called again. BARBARA HARRIS: "She's born and tested positive for PCP crack and heroin." Putting this into context, you know, you have a rat mom and they have about 16 to 20 babies. I know I've been joking a lot in this interview, but I mean it with all that I am. ROBERT: Do you know anything about the other four? [ARCHIVAL CLIP, Jad Abumrad: Whats that called?]. Actually, the idea itself is pretty old. I don't know where she gets that from. I went to the hospital and picked him up. The results are obvious to you. Most toads, he says, love to stay in the water. ROBERT: Interestingly, the church has also kept track of the farmers' SAM KEAN: How much they were growing each year. That tongue is doing something to the DNA. ROBERT: And it just so happens this town is a perfect place to dig. Still, that's a burden that, he's carrying a big burden there. Accuracy and availability may vary. JAD: Stretching got into the baby. 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