Before revision: 2 p. 126 Pliny the Elder also comments at length about the phenomenon of postpartum maternal impression in bears .Pliny Natural History VIII:126 See also Lihi Cortisol#Effects_during_pregnancy Epigenetics Fetal Origins Hypothesis Fetal origins of adult disease Lamarckism Mary Toft Mooncalf Pseudoscience Sooterkin References Bibliography Wendy Doniger and Gregory Spinner.
After revision: , i.e., the folk belief that newborn bears must be licked and molded into bear-shape by their mothers2 p. 126 Pliny the Elder also comments at length about the phenomenon of postpartum maternal impression in bears .Pliny Natural History VIII:126 See also Lihi Cortisol#Effects_during_pregnancy Epigenetics Fetal Origins Hypothesis Fetal origins of adult disease Lamarckism Mary Toft Mooncalf Pseudoscience Sooterkin References Bibliography Wendy Doniger and Gregory Spinner.