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 ...

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

The question is how. As a biological concept, the inheritance of acquired characteristics has had a wild roller coaster ride over the past two centuries. Championed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck at the ...

INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED TRAITS: FROM LAMARCK TO NOW Although theories of epigenetic inheritance have drawn new interest in the last 20 years or so, the ideas they tap into have been around for ...

Chinese scientists have challenged over a century of Darwinian theory, demonstrating that acquired traits can influence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...