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Is Lamarckian evolution relevant to medicine?
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BACKGROUND: 200 years have now passed since Darwin was born and scientists around the world are celebrating this important anniversary of the birth of an evolutionary visionary. However, the theories of his colleague Lamarck are treated with considerably less acclaim. These theories centre on the tendency for complexity to increase in organisms over time and the direct transmission of phenotypic traits from parents to offspring. DISCUSSION: Lamarckian concepts, long thought of no relevance t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medical Genetics Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 73
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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- EISSN:
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1471-2350
- ISSN:
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1471-2350
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:299006
- Source identifiers:
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299006
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Adam E Handel and Sreeram V Ramagopalan
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- © 2010 Handel and Ramagopalan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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