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To: A. Pole
" I just said that his was better than some other stuff."

How? He was a crackpot.

"I suspect that there could be some mechanism for inheriting the acquired traits."

Your Nobel Prize awaits you if you can find such a mechanism. As it stands, neo-lamarkism has been refuted, soundly.
95 posted on 01/05/2006 8:31:42 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
"I suspect that there could be some mechanism for inheriting the acquired traits."

Your Nobel Prize awaits you if you can find such a mechanism.

I have no resources or special interest in doing such large research project. Even if I had the most likely others would come with such result before me. :(

As it stands, neo-lamarkism has been refuted, soundly.

Lysenko tried to force biology into simplistic version of dialectical materialism. But you can have different mechanisms of inheriting the acquired traits. For example:

The genes switched on or off in parents could stay the same way in children (the transfer of switch configuration can be done through the cell process outside of DNA or in case of mammals during the pregnancy).

Information could be written back into genotype, making it permanent. Such writting could be functional and not random.

Genetic information can be shared between species or individuals using some transfer akin to retroviruses.

There are can me mechanisms of cellular memory independent from genes. There are could be some other mechanism which do not come into my mind now.

Contrary to you I do not think that these questions are closed and that the great surprises are no more possible. Well, you will be more surprised than me :)

BTW, some type of neo-lamarkist mechanisms could explain how evolution could accomplish so much.

110 posted on 01/05/2006 7:12:13 PM PST by A. Pole (If the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce heads would cost FIVE CENTS more!)
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