The Lamarck Manuscript in Harvard

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.

Calorie Restriction à Lamarck

Epigenetic inheritance of resistance to exogenous nucleic acids via small interfering (si) RNA is well established in animal models. Rechavi et al. demonstrate epigenetic inheritance of a starvation-induced pattern of gene silencing caused by endogenous siRNAs and resulting in an increased longevity in the third generation progeny. Combined with recent findings in prokaryotes, these results sug...

The Harvard Review

A New Psychology? iii EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Molecules and Memory 1. FRANCIS 0. SCHMITT Memories, Molecules and Minds 8 JAMES V. MCCONNELL The Physiology of the Brain in 1.965 1.8 DAVID H. HUBEL The Death of Dualism 24 ALFRED L. GOLDBERG Machines That Can Think 36 STEPHEN F. JENCKS The Whole Or Its Parts? 46 PHILIP J. STONE Love in a Test Tube 49 JOEL E. COHEN _ Psychophysiology and the 57 RICHA...

Lamarck and the prehistory of ecology.