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1. What does Ford have in common with his son that makes him wondering if there is a genetic proclivity for tastes in music?

When Ford was 15, he attend his first concert. It was a Van Halen concern. Decades later, his 12-year-old son, Taylor, happens to hear Van Halen on YouTube. He asks Ford about the band and wonders if he has ever heard of it. Then later, Taylor discovers other bands that Ford liked to listen to as a kid. At first, Ford thought Taylor's taste in music "was a strange and humorous parent/child coincidence" (xiv). Later when Ford read about transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, he began to wonder if something else was going on. If there was something in the genes that created a genetic proclivity for tastes in music.

2. What is epigenetic inheritance?

Children and grandchildren are shaped by the genes they inherit. However, many communities have embraced the idea that trauma can be inherited as well--an epigenetic inheritance. Native American believe that trauma can be generational. There are studies that show that the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors appear to have a higher percentage of PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Epigenetic inheritance seems to show that experiences of hardship or violence can be passed down through generations.

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