Epigenetics, Darwin, and Lamarck

It is not really helpful to consider modern environmental epigenetics as neo-Lamarckian; and there is no evidence that Lamarck considered the idea original to himself. We must all keep learning about inheritance, but attributing modern ideas to early researchers is not helpful, and can be misleading...

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Autor principal: Penny, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26026157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv107
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Sumario:It is not really helpful to consider modern environmental epigenetics as neo-Lamarckian; and there is no evidence that Lamarck considered the idea original to himself. We must all keep learning about inheritance, but attributing modern ideas to early researchers is not helpful, and can be misleading.

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