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From: whipp@roborough.gpsemi.com (David Whipp)
Subject: Re: Lamarckian Evolution
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I've just a couple of things to add to my last post:

1. I stated as facts a few things that I'm not completely certain of.
Please feel free to correct me.

2. A definite example of a situation where the behaviour of the mother
is carried other to the child: addiction.

There are many babies born every year addiction to heroin (etc.).
The heroin has not altered the genes and yet the behaviour of the
mother is transmitted.

Not all addictions are immediately harmful to he individual (other
than forcing to individual to alter its behaviour so as to feed the
addiction). Also, addiction is not a soley human activity.

If many addicts survive long enough to breed, then the addiction will
become established. survival may depend on one's ability to feed the
habit, and this behaviour will then be selected by Darwinian
principles.

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                    David P. Whipp.            <whipp@roborough.gpsemi.com>
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