Some Juneau friends planted holly bushes in their front yard a few years ago. Those bushes grew well, producing dark green leaves with smooth edges. However, during a few winters of heavy snow, deer ...

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This post is in response to Epigenetics of Music: A Karaoke vs. Bach Genetic Conflict? By Christopher Badcock Ph.D. A reply to a question in an online interview got me thinking a bit more about the ...

Inherited Learning? It Happens, But How Is Uncertain | RealClearScience As a biological concept, the inheritance of acquired characteristics has had a wild roller coaster ride over the past two ...

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works. But he helped advance a ...

Multiple studies have reported associations between child health and parental or grandparental lifestyle, while a number of animal and human studies hint at connections between environmental exposures ...

Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection. Playing the ...

The common view that Darwin did not believe that acquired characteristics could be inherited (12 July, p 28) is mistaken. In The Life and Letters of T. H. Huxley, Henry Huxley records Darwin’s fellow ...