{"id":243745,"date":"2026-09-08T01:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/your-mothers-age-may-leave-a-biological-mark-that-lasts-for-generations"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:27:40","slug":"your-mothers-age-may-leave-a-biological-mark-that-lasts-for-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/your-mothers-age-may-leave-a-biological-mark-that-lasts-for-generations","title":{"rendered":"Your Mother\u2019s Age May Leave a Biological Mark That Lasts for Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-mothers-age-may-leave-a-biological-mark-that-lasts-for-generations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maternal age effects may arise from reversible epigenetic changes whose impact depends partly on genetics and evolutionary pressures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A mother\u2019s age can leave a biological imprint on her offspring, influencing physical and behavioral traits across many animal species, including humans. These so-called maternal age effects are widespread, but scientists still do not fully understand the biological mechanisms behind them or why evolution has allowed them to persist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaternal age effects are incredibly common, from invertebrates up through humans, elephants, other primates and other mammals,\u201d said Kristin Gribble, an associate scientist in the Bay Paul Center at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/marine-biological-laboratory\/\">Marine Biological Laboratory<\/a>. \u201cNearly all forms of life show some level of maternal age effect, and most are negative effects caused by advanced maternal age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maternal age effects may arise from reversible epigenetic changes whose impact depends partly on genetics and evolutionary pressures. A mother\u2019s age can leave a biological imprint on her offspring, influencing physical and behavioral traits across many animal species, including humans. These so-called maternal age effects are widespread, but scientists still do not fully understand the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}