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hunter

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6. Life has evolved to evolve.

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Thu Jan 13, 2022, 03:26 PM

Jan 2022

That's a much less controversial position now than it was a few years ago.

Certain genes are highly conserved. Other genes tend to get swapped about or modified when conditions are stressful.

This is something more than epigenetic inheritance, a theory which was also rejected at first because it smacked of Lamarckism.

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