Telegony: Fact or Fiction?

Your choices matter, ladies. More than you think.

Like most aspects of genetic inheritance which place end-outcome responsibility at the foot of an individual, the importance of mate selection has been purposefully attacked by egalitarians through an assault on the science of telegony. Recent evidence, however, supports the traditional law of biology.

Telegony is the act through which a male sexual partner’s DNA influences future offspring of the female by other partners when molecules of their genetic code are carried by the semen to her, and absorbed by her immature eggs. 

That’s why cattle breeders will cull a heifer if a scrub bull gets in with his herd. It can taint the bloodline. It’s also why, in traditional societies, a virgin bride was prized. It literally reduced the influence of other male’s DNA on the prospective husband’s potential heirs.

“…other researchers have suggest that mechanisms exist that could in principle result in telegony in humans; for example because mothers carry fetal DNA in their blood during pregnancy.”

Could previous lovers influence appearance of future children?

Sometimes, however, women observing non-physical traits in their offspring which resemble behavioral characteristics of previous children by a different father who was largely absent during their growth to maturation may have laid the foundations for both of those children’s behavior through the nurturing and environment which she provided. Most of our non-physical traits, then, are the result of a combination of genetic inheritance, either directly or through inheritance, and our upbringing.

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