Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “This critical review is … not about the deeper historical narratives and old debates distinguishing Lamarckian Inheritance versus Darwinian Natural ...

If you have followed this blog for any length of time, you have probably figured out that I came to the science of aging through evolutionary biology, and that I believe evolutionary thinking is a key ...

I wrote a few weeks ago about newly-discovered dynamics of DNA that make Lamarckian genetic inheritance more plausible than ever. I wrote that there was now just one step missing from a ...

Most people know the Russian scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov for his famous dog experiments. Around the turn of the 20th century, Pavlov reported that if dogs are repeatedly given food just after ...

The effects of an animal’s environment during adolescence can be passed down to future offspring, according to two new studies. If applicable to humans, the research, done on rodents, suggests that ...

CAN mice pass memories down several generations? It is a startling proposition, and has duly provoked some strong responses. “Crazy Lamarckian shit,” exclaimed one observer. To many biologists, the ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Lamarckian inheritance, a one-time rival to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, suggests that epigenetic information can be passed between ...