Our May Insights puzzle was inspired by recent discoveries of some rare, intriguing patterns of inheritance that hark back to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution and its emphasis on the ...

You might recall from high school biology a scientist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He proposed a mechanism of evolution in which organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to ...

CAN mice pass memories down several generations? It is a startling proposition, and has duly provoked some strong responses. “Crazy Lamarckian shit,” exclaimed one observer. To many biologists, the ...

THE most recent development of the doctrine of -I evolution is the revival of Lamarckism-that is, the belief in the inheritable nature of the effects of use and disuse. Just as Bateson in 1894 ...

IT is to be regretted that Dr. Romanes has not written anything which can be considered as a reply to my letter. Although Prof. Weismann's essays, to which I referred, are certainly “two of the most ...