Instances of Lamarckian Evolution

So, the way my advisor influenced me will have an effect on my children? I guess so, in some indirect way.

No, the way your advisor influenced you will affect the way you advise your students.

Academic "reproduction" is a classic model of how PhD thesis advising progresses (including fascinating genealogies); and the mannerisms and advising strategy of successive generations are inherited from their "ancestors".
This has a sometimes uncomfortable level of truth to it, to the point where you can tell from share mannerisms who was whose student.

Sometimes, of course, you get mutants.

Oh yeah, it certainly works that way. But there is also a Firstborn Effect.

Oh yeah.
Phew.

You out there #1?

One of my best classes in grad school was taught by a professor with a strong accent. I was once remarking to a fellow student that our teachers will strongly influence the way we teach also (Lamarckian evolution, I guess). He responded, "Oh, No! Then I will have to say 'Yem' and 'Yen' instead of M and N."

Well, if I'm #1, we'll just have to see how the other, later numbers do before ascribing any firstborn effects. Worse, I'm an only child (in the real world). I can hear the therapists drooling :)