On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 9:55 PM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *isn't it now accepted that at least some acquired characteristics are > in fact inherited? TIA, AG* There are not many but there are a few examples of Epigenetic inheritance, but it doesn't add anything fundamentally new to Darwin's idea, basically it's just a further complication to Natural Selection because any change in an organism, including Epigenetic changes, will die out after just a few generations unless Natural Selection decrees that those changes confer a reproductive advantage. It's a good thing too because otherwise acquired characteristics like scars and broken bones and worn out teeth would be inherited, and if that was the case life would've died out billions of years ago, very soon after it first started. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> liw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3tFvciggy1L3jRXEMYBf2-qK19c_K0KE_dSrkS2-ELJQ%40mail.gmail.com.
