Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...

If there is an afterlife, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has had a roller-coaster of a ride. His life went well enough at first, defined early by honors gained on the battlefield and in the lab. Lamarck was a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lamarckian inheritance, a one-time rival to Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, suggests that epigenetic information can be passed between ...

Prior to Charles Darwin, many scholars, including Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin, believed that organisms evolved over time, becoming more complex and better suited to their environment. But the ...

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited idea has been making a strong comeback. It helps us explain scientific ...

EVOLUTION can occur in a way never previously shown. Geneticists have discovered that the strange proteins called prions can temporarily give yeast cells new powers which can then be quickly, and ...