>
> > I think it's highly speculative to say that significant changes can be
> passed from a complex multicellular organism like an insect or a mammal to
> offspring which are the result of sexual recombination of genetic material.


Hi Kurt,
My reading of various research papers leads me to believe that it occurs in
complex organisms of all sorts, and can be passed via the ovum and in some
cases the sperm cell.  If the genome is thought of as the notes of a piece
of music, epigenetics would be how the notes are played by each individual
artist.

Randy Oliver

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