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From: Chris Harris <charris@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Lamarckian Evolution
Message-ID: <1995Jan18.165850.75699@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:58:50 GMT
Organization: University College London
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If Lamarckian evolution is a possibility (and I might as well add here
that I don't consider it so) then how do its exponents explain the
amazing changes it must make to our genomes. If an organism picks up,
during its lifetime, a number of useful traits, which it somehow
genetically encodes, where does it put them? Does it just add these
sequences on to the end (i.e. new genetic material) or does it
replace ones that are already there so that the genome length is
preserved? If the latter, then how does it do that, and how does it 
decide which ones to 'get rid of'. If the former were the case then 
our genome would be getting longer and longer...

Chris
