The Lamarckian chicken and the Darwinian egg

Biology Direct

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a   Rechavi, Oded ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Darwinian Evolution; Epigenetic Inheritance; Evolution; Lamarckian Evolution; Modern Synthesis; Transgenerational RNA Interference; Weismann Barrier

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HEREDITY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; HEREDITY;

EID: 84933056206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13062-015-0062-9     Document Type: Note

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