Samwik wrote:
"some people have been using some of these new findings to dispute evolution theory (it "shows" Darwin was wrong)."
Even in my first link it says:
"Such results hint at a seemingly anti-Darwinian aspect of heredity."
Perhaps. But as Wiki says:
"the observation of epigenetic change occurring in response to environmental factors opens up the possibility of adaptive inheritance — a sort of Lamarckian inheritance. Although this remains speculative, if this does occur some instances of evolution would indeed be separate from standard genetic inheritance."
Neither Darwin nor Lamark knew anything about how characteristics are inherited so any new discoveries in that field affect their theory not one bit. In fact, of course, epigenetics offers further support for evolution. But I notice that even "Discover" seems to be hoping to increase circulation by claiming evolution may be wrong.
