Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes Are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm (Frontiers of Science (Perseus Books))
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Book Description
This explosive book challenges the very foundations of accepted thinking on the genetic mechanism of evolution.
"[This book] will represent, indeed, one of the landmarks in the history of biology. I have no idea what the outcome will be but I hope Steele is right."-Sir Peter Medawar
What if Lamarck, whose theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics was blown apart by Charles Darwin over a century ago, was partly right after all? In this daring book, Steele and company reveal their ground-breaking research that has uncovered strong molecular genetic evidence that aspects of acquired immunities developed by parents in their own lifetime can be passed on to their offspring. The book gives new life and scientific credibility to the Lamarckian heresy-the notion of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
About the Author
Edward J. Steele is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales.
Robyn A. Lindley is Director of the Technology Innovation Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Robert V. Blanden is in the Division of Immunization and Cell Biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, Australia. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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