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Heredity as transmission of information: Butlerian 'Intelligent Design.'.

Centaurus; international magazine of the history of science and medicine - 1 Jan 2006

Forsdyke Donald R

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In the 1870s, Ewald Hering and Samuel Butler provided what was, for that time, a scientifically coherent foundation for the Lamarckist view that positive adaptations to the environment acquired during an individual's lifetime can be transmitted to the offspring. Observing that heredity was a form...

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PMID: 18543449
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0498.2006.00045.x

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