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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spelling pubmed-44940542015-07-09 Epigenetics, Darwin, and Lamarck Penny, David Genome Biol Evol Perspectives 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. Oxford University Press 2015-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4494054/ /pubmed/26026157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv107 Text en © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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