Posted on 06/04/2015 5:37:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lysenko rides again!
(Which doesn’t mean the studies are inaccurate.)
Damn you, grandpa!
Numbers 14:18, The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Looks like Lamarck was at least partially right.
Intriguing.
Reminds me of another study a while back; I’ll link if I turn it up again.
I thought we got rid of this acquired traits inheritence crap back with Lamarck.
“Settled Science,” no doubt. There’s a consensus, don’t you know?
Oldplayer
Epi-gene. Old news
Paving the way for “Grandpa made me gay!”
Two possibilities.
Studies are inaccurate.
Studies are accurate and show that acquired traits may to some extent be inheritable.
It is what it is.
Search: women retain dna of previous sexual partners
On FR; 1/11: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3033798/posts
Work w/fruit flies, 10/14: http://www.medicaldaily.com/dna-sperm-ex-partners-lingers-female-flies-and-influences-genetics-her-offspring-305934
This has been hypothesized by serious researchers in modern times for some time, it is not breaking news. Nor is it Lysenkoism.
So Danny, BJ Clinton’s only real biological child (of which we know), could have inherited a propensity for rape, in addition to a bent Johnson?
The proto-giraffe streeeetched his neck, and the next generation was born with longer necks ...
We were taught this when I was in elementary school in the 1970s.
Righto.
But some people seem to be fixated on the notion that genetic information is simply passed down from generation to generation without change except by random mutation.
That’s always seemed a little simplistic to me. I’ve recently been running across research, for instance, that viruses may be able to modify the DNA of the host organism. Which opens up some interesting possibilities for the mechanism of evolution.
Sounds rather Jungian.
The sins of the father. Seven generations?
My EXACT first thought.
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