Sifting Truth From Hearsay
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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The Lamarckian Dynamic
Lamarck was a pre-disecessor of Darwin as a theory to the evolution. He thought that animals would be would strive for a particular outcome. Epigenetics is actually just about embryology, which proceeds on different genes in different tissues. Markian theory can only explain improvement and things like muscles getting bigger when you use them. It cannot work with more concerned with, is there any evidence for inheritance of acquired characteristics?
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