“…Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level…Only recently, however, have researchers begun to find molecular evidence of non-DNA inheritance between organisms as well as between cells…[authors] article outlines inherited epigenetic variation in bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

These findings “represent the tip of a very large iceberg,”…There are four known mechanisms for epigenetic inheritance…”Incorporating epigenetic inheritance into evolutionary theory extends the scope of evolutionary thinking and leads to notions of heredity and evolution that incorporate development,”…This is a vindication of sorts for 18th century naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck….” Full Slice

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