Epigenetics revisited (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, December 03, 2009, 13:57 (5261 days ago) @ David Turell

This article shows a newly-discovered defense mechanism, adding methionine in a random fashion to newly produced proteins, confusing the invaders:
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091125134701.htm
David, -Going deeper into the article, it talks a little more about epigenetics as a whole--and this underlines a point I've tried and failed to make in the past: epigenetics is a mechanism for change, but that change only gets transferred to future generations in one way. How does epigenetics then "prove" Darwin wrong? (Science isn't about "proving," i hate that word in any non-math context.) -Classical theory simply states that genetic changes are passed to offspring in one way... epigenetics would provide an elegant solution to the perceived speed problem. Perceived because I haven't actually seen a substantial argument to dictate what the "speed" of evolution *should* be. And before you (or anyone else) jumps on me about calculated mutation rates, I will remind that those are always specific to a particular species, thus, there's enough mathematical variation that we cannot infer back to the beginning of life.

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