Although let's say something happens where a joke is passed on from friend to friend and you call it a "riffle effect"that's clever.
Mutations can either arise independently or they can be passed on from an ancestor.
They are passed on from a parent to a child.
Their analysis, published in January in the Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the mutation was passed on from a common ancestor who lived about 14,000 years ago. .
The hypothesis infers that the broad articulation between the propodeum and metasoma in Ephialtitidae was passed on from a still more primitive family of Karatavitidae [ 29, 30].
A thorough review of the various types of the propodeal-metasomal articulation of Apocrita suggests that the wide articulation between the propodeum and metasoma in basal Ephialtitidae was passed on from a still more basal family of Karatavitidae and provided three separate pathways of transformation of the wasp waist.
In another, the community is seen as individual agents and crime is a contagious disease that can be passed on from one person to another forming an epidemic.
As Heinz Penzlin rightly pointed out, this process of learning is based on acquired and preserved information, which also changes with experience, and "which can be passed on from one to the other in a non-genetic manner through observation and imitation, through teaching and learning.
We're not seeing brand integrity being able to be passed on from one generation to the next over a very long period of time.
The net result in this case is that certain traits (or, more precisely, genetic variants that specify those traits) will, on average, be passed on from one generation to the next at a higher rate than existing alternatives in the population.
Nor is it known whether these changes might be passed on from one generation to the next.
