How might an organism evolve to pass its learned knowledge to its offspring 'genetically'?
Is it possible that a large, multicellular, naturally evolved organism with an advanced intellect on the order of a human's could have evolved to pass on its knowledge and memories in a fashion that could be described as 'genetic'?
By 'genetic', I mean that a newly born/hatched/whatever organism would emerge with at least a reasonable subset of one or both/all of its parents' stock of knowledge at the time at which it was born or conceived (depending on the means of reproduction) without having to be taught in the manner that human children must be taught.
Obviously, this should not preclude such offspring learning naturally in the manner with which we are familiar after birth.
Should this be possible, by what mechanism might this take place?
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