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... change to gene sequences taking place. It's misleading to characterize epigenetics as a "new Lamarckianiam." Epigenetics does not propose the hereditary transmission of acquired traits. No acquired traits are transmitted; any ..., or small differences in the timing of developmental events. Epigenetics is revealing some of the precise mechanisms underlying these ...

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... natural selection a helping hand or actually being even more prominent in the determining the traits of the offspring. ...selection is the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms...an organism, such that individuals with favorable phenotypes are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with less ...

... brain is still developing, can affect epigenetic settings, perhaps with catastrophic consequences. In... from schizophrenia. They found a distinctive epigenetic pattern, controlling the expression of roughly .... While examples of this "transgenerational epigenetic inheritance" are only just emerging in ... are much more ready to acknowledge and promote the idea that epigenetic inheritance ...

...> constantly hammered into the brain and therefore did actually transfer this need down to the offspring to some degree; perhaps giving the natural selection a helping hand or actually being even more prominent in the determining the traits of the offspring. Where Lamarck got it wrong was to claim that by learning to peck harder, within a learnable range of pecking strength, that the ...

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... is still developing, can affect epigenetic settings, perhaps with catastrophic consequences...schizophrenia. They found a distinctive epigenetic pattern, controlling the expression of...our grandchildren, should we be more careful? If so, in what...While examples of this "transgenerational epigenetic inheritance" are only just emerging...much more ready to acknowledge and promote the idea that epigenetic...

On Jul 13, 6:21 pm, Immortalist <reanimater_2...@yahoo.com> wrote: If the genes direct the assembly of the body/brain then how is this need transfered except for the nurture influence upon the assembly process which would be an influence with a range? Maybe learning at an early age can alter the expression of some genes further along in development. this is a good point. ...

In article <ghji74tr1temm4pqel72c0frrp5ev5krbu@4ax.com>, mmcneill@fuzzysys.com says... Now all that is changing. No one is arguing that Lamarck got everything right, but over the past decade it has become increasingly clear that environmental factors, such as diet or stress, can have biological consequences that are transmitted to offspring without a single change to gene sequences ...