Epigenetics: through phenotype changes? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, January 15, 2015, 00:12 (3395 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: 2) Perhaps, then, I am not alone in thinking that organisms might possess an inventive mechanism which enables them to innovate. As your own quotes show, the article does not go that far, and still clings to random mutations as the main supplier of innovation. But the above is clearly heading in the direction of my hypothesis. We simply don't know the extent of control that cells/cell communities have over their own development.-I presented this article to demonstrate how strongly the Lamarckian theory is raising its ugly head. (Ugly to strict Darwinists). We are still learning how strong this self-improvement mechanism may be. And you have admitted the mechanism may be God given. I think it is and you are still unconvinced, but we are not that far apart.