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 ...

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.

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He points out that in certain marsupials, the habits of which have been observed and recorded in detail, the characteristic adult deviations from the primitive cranio-caudal direction of the body ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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