[A. Pole]

The new mouse experiment lends support to the idea that we inherit not only our genes from our parents, but also a set of instructions that tell the genes when to become active. These instructions appear to be passed on through "epigenetic" changes to DNA – genes can be activated or silenced according to the chemical groups that are added onto them.

Another hint that the crude "Darwinian" scheme is false. Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words.

[GSlob]

"Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words."
Then go directly to proletarian Michurinite theory and cut the intermediate crap.

[UpAllNight]

--Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words.--

"Nature, in producing in succession every species of animal, and beginning with the least perfect or simplest to end her work with the most perfect, has gradually complicated their structure."

[UpAllNight]

--Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words.--

"The theory that Lamarck published consisted of several components. Underlying the whole was a 'tendency to progression', a principle that Creation is in a constant state of advancement. It was an innate quality of nature that organisms constantly 'improved' by successive generation, too slowly to be perceived but observable in the fossil record. Mankind sat at the top of this chain of progression, having passed through all the previous stages in prehistory."

[Honorary Serb]

Actually, with 21st century evolutionary biology that takes comparative genomics and other 21st century biology (e.g., epigenetics, micro-RNA) seriously, we are going to go WAY beyond both Darwin and Lamarck!!! We are now where physics was in 1900, just before Einstein and quantum mechanics.

This is a very long story, and I know what I am talking about. But it is too long a story for me to get into on a forum such as this.