While is entirely possible that a previous writer is entirely correct about this idea, it is possible that there is more to this than can be currently seen. Frankly I have my doubts, but I've been wrong before and I won't learn if encourage others to speak or I don't listen.
I recall writers on this list stating flatly that Lamarck's ideas were totally discredited and possibly the same person(s) dismissing horizontal gene transfer, not long before those phenomena were confirmed as actual and significant.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lamarck+and+epigeneticshttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=horizontal+gene+transfer
While it may be fun and entertaining to slam ideas with wit and rhetoric, doing so has the effect of discouraging open discussion and brainstorming and BEE-L is a discussion list. So let's be careful keep an open mind (even if folks do tend to throw garbage into open containers from time to time) and show respect for strange ideas.
Who knows what we might learn?
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