Re: Interesting Rambling--Lamarck

From: Nick Eden <nick_at_UKVss5r_v-DWtv96lJkoh735zyjKVlAlkJArcq1G3quIZl1V9_gtKMdTzEOokWQ9M_LhjQY>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:17:21 +0000


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:58 PM, julianlord <julian.lord_at_nJjPHPkxGcvf_x8pbfuj1r23LoC4oFh-OWtlpFqT80KSlMgLkP1wifEL8oHjXm7NJldT4RmBvBJzmC8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> Simon Phipp :
>
> > Chris Lemens:
> > > Evolution in Glorantha must be Lamarckian.
> >
> > Nope, I am pretty sure that if you took 10 generations of dogs and
> chopped all their tails off then the next generation would be born with
> tails.
>
> erm, I think neo-Lamarckian theory would posit that the next generation
> would be born with tails, so that they could be properly chopped off ?
>
> The inherited characteristics are "born with a tail" ; "which gets chopped
> off".
>

That would explain one thing that came up on an In Our Time program about Lysenko. Can't remember exactly who said it, one of the biologists, but the gist was that the jews had been running this experiment for 4000 years, and still needed to resort to surgery.

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