[dragonwriter]

> Moreover, most people have it exactly backwards... to the extent passing epigenetics to your children makes sense at all from an evolutionary perspective, it is passing adaptations, not weaknesses.

While I don't think epigenetic math anxiety is particularly plausible (for, basically, the "math receptor" reason you state earlier), an adaptation in general may turn out to be a weakness in a particular case. If, say, it was possible to epigenetically pass on stress triggers (an "adaptation", because having a stronger, quicker fight-or-flight response to a particular environmental condition that is a frequent stress source might generally be an advantage) this might manifest as a weakness in some particular cases. Now, because its hard to believe that there are "math receptors", it seems unlikely that even if this was possible in some general sense, that it would be possible in some way where "math" was the specific sensitized trigger, but if it was...