HEALTH UPDATE: latent memory helps birds learn flying, hunting skills faster

Birds learn to fly easily because of the latent memories left behind in their brains by their ancestors, according to a new study by a psychologist. They discovered that learning in previous generations indirectly induced the formation of a latent memory in the current generation and decreased the amount of learning required, BBC radio reported.
The beneficial effects of learning also depend on the unusual form of information storage in neural networks. "This new theory has its roots in ideas proposed by James Baldwin in 1896, who made the counter-intuitive argument that learning within each generation could guide evolution of innate behaviour over future generations.