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From: clemenr@westminster.ac.uk (Ross Clement)
Subject: Re: What is Lamarckian evolution ?
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 11:34:08 GMT
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In article <3c70ks$le4@io.salford.ac.uk> a.fraser@eee.salford.ac.uk (Adam Fraser) writes:
>In article <D0E60s.5o1@news.cern.ch>, carmona@vxcern.cern.ch says:
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>>Is there someone who could explain me what is Lamarckian evolution ?
>>Is it related to Lamarck view on the genetic ?
>
>Basically Lamarckian evolution means you can have a read/write gene.
>Biology, (un)fortunately, has only a read gene so all the information we
>learn from our lives is not passed to our children.  In artificial evolution
>the mapping between genotype and phenotype *may* allow us to write
>back to the genotype if anything is learnt by the phenotype.

When I was doing biology (a long time ago) there was some talk that
Lamarkian evolution (called 'neo-Lamarkian evolution' by the lecturer who
told me) might possibly have some basis in fact. There were conjectures
that cytoplasmic inheritence might have something to do with it. Has
this been looked into properly? What was the result?

Cheers,

Ross-c
