Recent evidence increasingly supports the idea that certain ancestral life experiences acquired in the environment can be inherited by offspring; paternally acquired characteristics can be encoded ...

Chinese researchers recently discovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism, a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Dr. Hobert suspected that RNA interference (RNAi) might be involved in the inheritance of acquired traits. RNAi is a natural process that cells use to turn down, or silence, specific genes.

This approach yielded stable rice lines with significantly enhanced cold tolerance, driven by traits showing dominant patterns ... More information: Xianwei Song et al, Inheritance of acquired ...

IT may be worth noting that since my letter to you of some months back, in which I gave an instance of foxterrier pups being born with short tails, I have heard of two similar cases. In one of ...

Trofim Lysenko, whose view on the inheritance of acquired characteristics was enforced in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin from the 1920s until its abandonment in 1964, took what little ...

New studies demonstrate that insects can learn from their previous experiences and adjust their future behavior for survival and reproduction. It was long believed that physical characteristics ...

For many years we were taught in school that acquired traits were not inherited ... "We discovered that H2AK119ub1 is necessary for maternal inheritance of H3K27me3, making the H2AK119ub1-H3K27me3 ...

But new discoveries of what looks like the inheritance of traits acquired by parents—lab animals as well as people—are forcing biologists to reconsider Lamarckism. The lab mice, of course ...

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the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common sense on its side. In fact, the "inheritance of acquired characters" continued to ...