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Archive for July 15th, 2008

Neo-Lamarckism

OK, maybe Darwin, Lysenko, and Lamarck had something right about the inheritance of acquired characteristics, after all:
HALF a century before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined his own theory of evolution. A cornerstone of this was the idea that characteristics acquired during an individual’s lifetime can be [...]

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