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Telegony is the discredited belief that a woman's chromosomes are changed by her partners, meaning that her future children may carry genetic traits of a man other than her future husband/mate.

The belief in telegony grew from faulty experiments with farm animals in the 19th Century. Charles Darwin even cited the concept in his works. The Eugenics Movement, which sought to produce pure and superior people through better breeding, readily embraced telegony.

In the 20th Century in America, white supremacists and religious fundamentalists picked up telegony to condemn anyone who engaged in interracial relationships as being "genetically polluted."

Believe it or not, despite modern scientific proof to the contrary, the belief in telegony is experiencing a resurgence in the states of the former Soviet Union.

PRAVDA.RU
Woman's first partner may become genetic father of all her kids, telegony says
27.06.2007


One of the ardent advocates of telegony, candidate of historical sciences Valery Bochkarev says that if a woman has had lots of sexual contacts with various men before her first childbirth she then has her chromosome chain absolutely polluted. And when she gets pregnant from her husband and gives birth to her child it is hardly likely that this baby will be purely the man’s one in the genetic point of view.

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http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/27-06-2007/94136-telegony-0

Telegony.

Know the word and what it implies when you see it. :)
 
It's partially true.... what if the kid gets AIDS from her because she slept with some previous dood with it?




(I know it's not a trait... I'm just drinkin)
 
I'd like to think my sperm are that powerful.
 
Telegony is partly true with some animals, like cats, but not because the chromosomes of the female change.

In a single litter, a female cat (called a queen, go figure) can produce offspring from several different males because of the fertilization process of the animal's ovaries.
 
It's just scary that people fall for such bull, especially in 2007. If I was stuck in a telegony-believing society I'd tackle the first guy that looked like he could get me thrown out.

FYI: There's a certain female in my house :shrug: that has tested the telegony theory maximally, and has produced 3 kids (marked with their daddy's dimpled chin) as evidence that telegony is pure bunk. There's our household's contribution to science. You're welcome.
 

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