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From Environmental Epigenetics to the Inheritance of Acquired Traits: A Historian and Molecular Perspective on an Unnecessary Lamarckian Explanation.
Biomolecules - 5 Jul 2023
Mandrioli Mauro
Abstract excerpt
In the last decade, it has been suggested that epigenetics may enhance the adaptive possibilities of animals and plants to novel environments and/or habitats and that such epigenetic changes may be inherited from parents to offspring, favoring their adaptation. As a consequence, several Authors called for a shift in the Darwinian paradigm, asking for a neo-Lamarckian view of evolution. Regardless of what will be...
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