LAMARCK AND THE 'PERFECTING TENDENCY.'

Perfecting Kant's highest good

The return of Lamarck?

In the last decade researchers have produced immense amounts of genetic data resulting in many sequenced genomes. Although we may now know the DNA sequence in a genome, just as seeing all the letters of a book, deciphering which sequences encode genes, let alone understanding which combination of genes are required to organize life, is like decoding the meaning of a book written in a language n...

Epigenetics, Darwin, and Lamarck

It is not really helpful to consider modern environmental epigenetics as neo-Lamarckian; and there is no evidence that Lamarck considered the idea original to himself. We must all keep learning about inheritance, but attributing modern ideas to early researchers is not helpful, and can be misleading.

Lamarck and the prehistory of ecology.

Lamarck, evolution and the politics of science.

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