Lamarck

Do we really inherit acquired traits? — Parenting is full of paradoxical situations. There are times when you hate to see your kids doing things that you also do, or at least did, oftentimes. When it first dawned upon me that my child has developed a habit of sucking her lower lip, I couldn’t decide if I…

This essay is dedicated to biology teachers I met in my school days. Their passion and love for wonders of nature was so infectious and contagious that it left lifelong indelible impressions on students. Background Tracking evolution of species has always ignited interest of inquisitive minds. …

Has Transgenerational Epigenetics Vindicated Jean-Bapstsiste Lamarck? — When people hear the term “evolution” all they think about is Charles Darwin, the famed English naturalist who, in 1859, gave us the most notable mechanism of the evolutionary process. However, fifty years prior to Darwin’s publication of On The Origin of Species, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had formulated his own theory…