Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:14:33 +0100
From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: achieving audio and visual fidelity
Jake wrote :
<snip>
> Aside from being wrong in
> biology, was Lamark's concept of evolution even potentially intelligible
> beyond its basics?
<snip>
Lamark was not entirely wrong. Have you not heard of epigenetic inheritance ?
Characteristics acquired by one generation, from their interaction with the
environment, can indeed be passed on to the next generation.
Chris.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
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